The Handbook of Language Emergence

MacWhinney, Brian; O'Grady, William

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

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2015-03-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781118301753

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Dimensions: 246.4cm x172.7cm

Pages: 656.0