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