Research Catalog

Title

The handbook of language emergence / edited by Brian MacWhinney and William O'Grady.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• MacWhinney, Brian
• O'Grady, William

Description

xii, 637 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language. The authors focus on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints. In addition, the book examines forces on widely divergent time scales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution. Key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues are also addressed"--

Series Statement

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Uniform Title

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.

Alternative Title

Language emergence

Subject

• Language and languages > Origin
• Linguistics
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Notes on Contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Language Emergence / Brian MacWhinney ; PART I. Basic Language Structures: 1. The Emergence of Phonological Representation / Patricia Donegan -- 2. Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity in Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning / James L. McClelland -- 3. The Emergence of Language Comprehension / Maryellen C. McDonald -- 4. Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism / William O'Grady -- 5. Morphological Emergence / Péter Rácz, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Jennifer B. Hay, and Viktória Papp -- 6. Metaphor and Emergentism / Zóltan Kövecses -- 7. Usage-based Language Learning / Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, and Ute Römer ; PART II. Language Change and Typology: 8. Emergence at the Cross-linguistic Level : Attractor Dynamics in Language Change / Joan Bybee and Clay Beckner -- 9. The Diachronic Genesis of Synchronic Syntax / T. Givon -- 10. Typological Variation and Efficient Processing / John A. Hawkins -- 11. Word meanings across languages support efficient communication / Terry Regier, Charles Kemp, and Paul Kay ; PART III. Interactional Structures: 12. Linguistic Emergence on the Ground : a Variationist Paradigm / Shana Poplack and Rena Torres Cacoullos -- 13. The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure / Paul Foulkes and Jennifer B. Hay -- 14. An Emergentist Approach to Grammar / Paul J. Hopper -- 15. Common Ground / Eve V. Clark -- 16. The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language / Dan L. Everett ; PART IV. Language Learning: 17. Learnability / Alexander Clark -- 18. Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning / Erik Thiessen and Lucy Erickson -- 19. Language Emergence in Development : A Computational Perspective / Stewart McCauley, Padraic Monaghan, and Morten H. Christiansen -- 20. Perception and Production in Phonological Development / Marilyn Vihman -- 21. The Emergence of Gestures / Jordan Zlatev -- 22. A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition / Ben Ambridge and Elena Lieven -- 23. Bilingualism as a Dynamic Process / Ping Li -- 24. Dynamic Systems and Language Development / Paul van Geert and Marjolijn Verspoor ; PART V. Language and the Brain: 25. Models of Language Production in Aphasia / Gary Dell and Nathaniel D. Anderson -- 26. Formulaic Language in an Emergentist Framework / Diana Van Lanckner Sidtis -- 27. Language Evolution : An Emergentist Perspective / Michael A. Arbib.

Call Number

P116

ISBN

• 9781118301753
• 1118301757
• 9781322949604
• 1322949603
• 9781118346082
• 1118346084

LCCN

• 2014025095
• 40024749817

OCLC

886381341

Title

The handbook of language emergence / edited by Brian MacWhinney and William O'Grady.

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

MacWhinney, Brian, editor.

O'Grady, William, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Handbook of language emergence Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 9781118346082 (DLC) 2014032139

Other Standard Identifier

40024749817

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR P116 .H36 2015