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The Handbook of Language Emergence


The Handbook of Language Emergence


Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, Band 87 1. Aufl.

von: Brian MacWhinney, William O'Grady

53,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 28.01.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781118346082
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 656

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<p>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.</p> <ul> <li>Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism</li> <li>Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints</li> <li>Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution</li> <li>Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors vii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xiii</p> <p>Introduction: Language Emergence 1<br /><i>Brian MacWhinney</i></p> <p><b>Part I Basic Language Structures 33</b></p> <p>1 The Emergence of Phonological Representation 35<br /><i>Patricia Donegan</i></p> <p>2 Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity in Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning 53<br /><i>James L. McClelland</i></p> <p>3 The Emergence of Language Comprehension 81<br /><i>Maryellen C. MacDonald</i></p> <p>4 Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism 100<br /><i>William O’Grady</i></p> <p>5 Morphological Emergence 123<br /><i>Péter Rácz, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Jennifer B. Hay, and Viktória Papp</i></p> <p>6 Metaphor and Emergentism 147<br /><i>Zoltán Kövecses</i></p> <p>7 Usage-Based Language Learning 163<br /><i>Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Brook O’Donnell, and Ute Römer</i></p> <p><b>Part II Language Change and Typology 181</b></p> <p>8 Emergence at the Cross-Linguistic Level: Attractor Dynamics in Language Change 183<br /><i>Joan Bybee and Clay Beckner</i></p> <p>9 The Diachronic Genesis of Synchronic Syntax 201<br /><i>T. Givón</i></p> <p>10 Typological Variation and Efficient Processing 215<br /><i>John A. Hawkins</i></p> <p>11 Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication 237<br /><i>Terry Regier, Charles Kemp, and Paul Kay</i></p> <p><b>Part III Interactional Structures 265</b></p> <p>12 Linguistic Emergence on the Ground: A Variationist Paradigm 267<br /><i>Shana Poplack and Rena Torres Cacoullos</i></p> <p>13 The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure 292<br /><i>Paul Foulkes and Jennifer B. Hay</i></p> <p>14 An Emergentist Approach to Grammar 314<br /><i>Paul J. Hopper</i></p> <p>15 Common Ground 328<br /><i>Eve V. Clark</i></p> <p>16 The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language 354<br /><i>Daniel L. Everett</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Language Learning 377</b></p> <p>17 Learnability 379<br /><i>Alexander Clark</i></p> <p>18 Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning 396<br /><i>Erik Thiessen and Lucy Erickson</i></p> <p>19 Language Emergence in Development: A Computational Perspective 415<br /><i>Stewart M. McCauley, Padraic Monaghan, and Morten H. Christiansen</i></p> <p>20 Perception and Production in Phonological Development 437<br /><i>Marilyn Vihman</i></p> <p>21 The Emergence of Gestures 458<br /><i>Jordan Zlatev</i></p> <p>22 A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition 478<br /><i>Ben Ambridge and Elena Lieven</i></p> <p>23 Bilingualism as a Dynamic Process 511<br /><i>Ping Li</i></p> <p>24 Dynamic Systems and Language Development 537<br /><i>Paul van Geert and Marjolijn Verspoor</i></p> <p><b>Part V Language and the Brain 557</b></p> <p>25 Models of Language Production in Aphasia 559<br /><i>Gary S. Dell and Nathaniel D. Anderson</i></p> <p>26 Formulaic Language in an Emergentist Framework 578<br /><i>Diana Van Lancker Sidtis</i></p> <p>27 Language Evolution: An Emergentist Perspective 600<br /><i>Michael A. Arbib</i></p> <p>Index 625</p>
<p> <strong>Brian MacWhinney</strong> 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 <em>The CHILDES project: Tools for Analyzing Talk, 3<sup>rd</sup> Edition</em> (2000) and editor of <em>Mechanisms of Language Acquisition</em> (1987) and <em>The Emergence of Language</em> (1999). He is also the creator of the TalkBank system for spoken language data-sharing. <p><strong>William O'Grady</strong> 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 <em>Syntactic Carpentry</em> (2005), in which he first set out his ideas on the centrality of the processor to the study of syntax and language acquisition.
<p> "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."<br><strong>Adele E. Goldberg,</strong> Princeton University <p> "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." <br><strong>Roberta Michnick Golinkof,</strong> University of Delaware <p> "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." <br><strong>Dan I. Slobin,</strong> University of California, Berkeley <p> 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. <p>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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