Foreword / by Björn Lindblom

Preface / by Barbara L. Davis and Krisztina Zajdó

Overview. 1. The Frame/Content theory / Peter F. MacNeilage

I, Evolutionary Perspectives on Speech Development. 2. The Origins of Syllabification in Human Infancy and in Human Evolution / D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel

3. Simple Combinatorial Considerations Challenge Ruhlen's Mother Tongue Theory / Louis-Jean Boë, Pierre Bessiè̀re, Nadia Ladjili and Nicolas Audibert

4. The Frame/Content Theory and the Emergence of Consonants / Didier Demolin

5. Lipsmacking and Babbling : Syllables, Sociality, and Survival / John L. Locke

II, Neurobiological Aspects of Speech Production. 6. Mirror Neurons and Evolution of Communication and Language / Leonardo Fogassi and Pier Francesco Ferrari

7. Syllables in Psycholinguistic Theory : Now You See Them, Now You Don't / Niels O. Schiller

III, Perception /Action Relationships. 8. The Emergent Syllable / John J. Ohala

9. Co-occurrence Patterns in the Babbling of Children with a Cochlear Implant / Karen Schauwers, Paul J. Govaerts, and Steven Gillis

10. The Development of Consonant Vowel Syllables in Children Following Cochlear Implantation / Jan Allison Moore

11. Frames and Babbling in Hearing and Deaf Infants / Florien J. van Beinum

IV, Acquisition of Speech. 12. Teething, Chewing, and the Babbled Syllable / Jeannette M. van der Stelt

13. An Acoustical Analysis of Consonant-Vowel Cooccurrences in Babbling : Coronal and Dorsal Contexts / Christine Matyear

14. Syllables, Segments, and Sequences : Phonological Patterns in the Words of Young Children Acquiring American English / Carol Stoel-Gammon and Beate Peter

V, Modeling and Movement. 15. The Target Hypothesis, Dynamic Specification and Segmental Independence / Björn Lindblom

16. Jaw Cycles and Linguistic Syllables in Adult English / Melissa A. Redford and Paul van Donkelaar

VI, Alternative Perspectives on the Syllable. 17. The Syllable in Sign Language : Considering the Other Natural Language Modality / Wendy Sandler

18. When the Babble Syllable Feeds the Foot in a Point / Christian Abry, Virginie Ducey, Anne Vilain and Claire Lalevée.