Jacques Durand is Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail and a member there of the CNRS team: Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique, where he leads a phonology team. He is the author and editor of a number of books on phonology, including Generative and Non-Linear Phonology (1990), Frontiers of Phonology (1995, with F. Katamba) and Current Trends in Phonology (1996, with B. Laks).; Bernard Laks is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Paris X and the Director there of the CNRS team Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus. He is the author of Langage et cognition (1996) and Phonologie accentuelle (1997). He has edited a number of books on phonology, including Current Trends in Phonology (1996, with J. Durand). His recent work has been in the area of language from a connectionist perspective.