Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Complexity and phonological primitives -- Complexity in phonetics and phonology: gradience, categoriality, and naturalness -- Languages' sound inventories: the devil in the details -- Signal dynamics in the production and perception of vowels -- Part 2: Typological approaches to measuring complexity -- Calculating phonological complexity -- Favoured syllabic patterns in the world's languages and sensorimotor constraints -- Structural complexity of phonological systems -- Scale-free networks in phonological and orthographic wordform lexicons -- Part 3: Phonological representations in the light of complex adaptive systems -- The dynamical approach to speech perception: From fine phonetic detail to abstract phonological categories -- A dynamical model of change in phonological representations: The case of lenition -- Cross-linguistic trends in the perception of place of articulation in stop consonants: A comparison between Hungarian and French -- The complexity of phonetic features' organisation in reading -- Part 4: Complexity in the course of language acquisition -- Self-organization of syllable structure: a coupled oscillator model -- Internal and external influences on child language productions -- Emergent complexity in early vocal acquisition: Cross linguistic comparisons of canonical babbling -- Backmatter