title: Dynamics of phonological cognition.
abstract: A fundamental problem in spoken language is the duality between the continuous aspects of phonetic performance and the discrete aspects of phonological competence. We study 2 instances of this problem from the phenomenon of voicing neutralization and vowel harmony. In each case, we present a model where the experimentally observed continuous distinctions are linked to the discreteness of phonological form using the mathematics of nonlinear dynamics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, New York University and Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, ConnecticutDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University.
authors.forename: Adamantios I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Gafos
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Benus