The Handbook of Language Emergence by Brian MacWhinney (English) Paperback Book

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Explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, creating an inclusive and in-depth text on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigmBrings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of emergentist accounts of language.

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This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm. Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentismFocuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraintsExamines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolutionAddresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever

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"This is a must-read, greatest-hits volume for anyone serious about understanding what language is, where it comes from, and how it's used." Adele E. Goldberg, Princeton University "This Handbook does more than provide a timely review of recent research in language acquisition by many of the leaders in the field. Its chapters are couched in a theoretical perspective - the Emergentist Program - that must be reckoned with and that has come of age. An essential component in any researcher's language library." Roberta Michnick Golinkof, University of Delaware "Emergentism has a long history in philosophy and natural science. Now, in this landmark collection, virtually all aspects of language are carefully and insightfully examined by an impressive range of thinkers from all of the disciplines concerned with linguistic structures and their changes over time." Dan I. Slobin, University of California, Berkeley This comprehensive exposition of the emergentist paradigm reflects the shifting landscape of linguistic theory, and provides advanced students and researchers with the most up-to-date research in our understanding of language emergence. Emergentism focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints, operating across widely divergent time scales. This handbook is the most in-depth and inclusive attempt yet made to bring together studies from the most prominent advocates of emergentism. Phenomena ranging from syntax and typology to language learning, language processing, sociolinguistics, and computational modeling are explored with reference to the competing forces that shape the emergence of language across nano and intergenerational time scales. The contributors each address key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this volume the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever published.

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"This is a must-read, greatest-hits volume for anyone serious about understanding what language is, where it comes from, and how it's used." Adele E. Goldberg, Princeton University "This Handbook does more than provide a timely review of recent research in language acquisition by many of the leaders in the field. Its chapters are couched in a theoretical perspective - the Emergentist Program - that must be reckoned with and that has come of age. An essential component in any researcher's language library." Roberta Michnick Golinkof, University of Delaware "Emergentism has a long history in philosophy and natural science. Now, in this landmark collection, virtually all aspects of language are carefully and insightfully examined by an impressive range of thinkers from all of the disciplines concerned with linguistic structures and their changes over time." Dan I. Slobin, University of California, Berkeley This comprehensive exposition of the emergentist paradigm reflects the shifting landscape of linguistic theory, and provides advanced students and researchers with the most up-to-date research in our understanding of language emergence. Emergentism focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints, operating across widely divergent time scales. This handbook is the most in-depth and inclusive attempt yet made to bring together studies from the most prominent advocates of emergentism. Phenomena ranging from syntax and typology to language learning, language processing, sociolinguistics, and computational modeling are explored with reference to the competing forces that shape the emergence of language across nano and intergenerational time scales. The contributors each address key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this volume the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever published.

Author Biography

Brian MacWhinney is Professor of Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He has developed the Competition Model of first- and second-language acquisition, which shows how learning and processing emerge from competing patterns across divergent language levels and timeframes. He is the author of The CHILDES project: Tools for Analyzing Talk, 3rd Edition (2000) and editor of Mechanisms of Language Acquisition (1987) and The Emergence of Language (1999). He is also the creator of the TalkBank system for spoken language data-sharing. William O'Grady is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has undertaken extensive research in syntax and language acquisition, focusing on the idea that linguistic phenomena are best understood in terms of the interaction of more basic factors and forces, especially processing cost. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Syntactic Carpentry (2005), in which he first set out his ideas on the centrality of the processor to the study of syntax and language acquisition.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Language Emergence 1Brian MacWhinney Part I Basic Language Structures 33 1 The Emergence of Phonological Representation 35Patricia Donegan 2 Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity in Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning 53James L. McClelland 3 The Emergence of Language Comprehension 81Maryellen C. MacDonald 4 Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism 100William O'Grady 5 Morphological Emergence 123Péter Rácz, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Jennifer B. Hay, and Viktória Papp 6 Metaphor and Emergentism 147Zoltán Kövecses 7 Usage-Based Language Learning 163Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, and Ute Römer Part II Language Change and Typology 181 8 Emergence at the Cross-Linguistic Level: Attractor Dynamics in Language Change 183Joan Bybee and Clay Beckner 9 The Diachronic Genesis of Synchronic Syntax 201T. Givón 10 Typological Variation and Efficient Processing 215John A. Hawkins 11 Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication 237Terry Regier, Charles Kemp, and Paul Kay Part III Interactional Structures 265 12 Linguistic Emergence on the Ground: A Variationist Paradigm 267Shana Poplack and Rena Torres Cacoullos 13 The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure 292Paul Foulkes and Jennifer B. Hay 14 An Emergentist Approach to Grammar 314Paul J. Hopper 15 Common Ground 328Eve V. Clark 16 The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language 354Daniel L. Everett Part IV Language Learning 377 17 Learnability 379Alexander Clark 18 Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning 396Erik Thiessen and Lucy Erickson 19 Language Emergence in Development: A Computational Perspective 415Stewart M. McCauley, Padraic Monaghan, and Morten H. Christiansen 20 Perception and Production in Phonological Development 437Marilyn Vihman 21 The Emergence of Gestures 458Jordan Zlatev 22 A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition 478Ben Ambridge and Elena Lieven 23 Bilingualism as a Dynamic Process 511Ping Li 24 Dynamic Systems and Language Development 537Paul van Geert and Marjolijn Verspoor Part V Language and the Brain 557 25 Models of Language Production in Aphasia 559Gary S. Dell and Nathaniel D. Anderson 26 Formulaic Language in an Emergentist Framework 578Diana Van Lancker Sidtis 27 Language Evolution: An Emergentist Perspective 600Michael A. Arbib Index 625

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"This is a must-read, greatest-hits volume for anyone serious about understanding what language is, where it comes from, and how its used." Adele E. Goldberg, Princeton University "This Handbook does more than provide a timely review of recent research in language acquisition by many of the leaders in the field. Its chapters are couched in a theoretical perspective the Emergentist Program that must be reckoned with and that has come of age. An essential component in any researchers language library." Roberta Michnick Golinkof, University of Delaware "Emergentism has a long history in philosophy and natural science. Now, in this landmark collection, virtually all aspects of language are carefully and insightfully examined by an impressive range of thinkers from all of the disciplines concerned with linguistic structures and their changes over time." Dan I. Slobin, University of California, Berkeley This comprehensive exposition of the emergentist paradigm reflects the shifting landscape of linguistic theory, and provides advanced students and researchers with the most up-to-date research in our understanding of language emergence. Emergentism focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints, operating across widely divergent time scales. This handbook is the most in-depth and inclusive attempt yet made to bring together studies from the most prominent advocates of emergentism. Phenomena ranging from syntax and typology to language learning, language processing, sociolinguistics, and computational modeling are explored with reference to the competing forces that shape the emergence of language across nano and intergenerational time scales. The contributors each address key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this volume the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever published.

Details ISBN1119075386 Author William O'Grady ISBN-10 1119075386 ISBN-13 9781119075387 Media Book Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-04-18 Pages 656 Format Paperback Language English Imprint Wiley-Blackwell DEWEY 400 UK Release Date 2018-04-18 AU Release Date 2018-04-13 NZ Release Date 2018-04-13 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9781118301753 Edited by Brian MacWhinney Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2018-04-18 Series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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