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Language as a complex adaptive system / Nick C. Ellis and Diane Larsen-Freeman, editors.
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- Book
- Series:
- Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Language learning ; v. 59, suppl. 1.
- Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Language learning
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language acquisition--Research.
- Language acquisition.
- Second language acquisition research.
- Second language acquisition--Research.
- Second language acquisition research (Title).
- Language and languages--Study and teaching.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Contents:
- The "five graces group" / (Clay Beckner, Richard Blythe, Joan Bybee, Morten H. Christiansen, William Croft, Nick C. Ellis, John Holland, Jinyun Ke, Diane Larsen-Freeman, and Tom Schoenemann)
- Language is a complex adaptive system: position : paper A usage-based account of constituency and reanalysis / Clay Beckner and Joan Bybee
- The speech community in evolutionary language dynamics / Richard A. Blythe and William A. Croft
- Linking rule acquisition in novel phrasal constructions / Jeremy K. Boyd, Erin A. Gottschalk, and Adele E. Goldberg
- Constructing a second language: analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic, constructions from usage / Nick C. Ellis and Diane Larsen-Freeman
- A usage-based approach to recursion in sentence processing / Morten H. Christiansen and Maryellen C. MacDonald
- Evolution of brain and language / P. Thomas Schoenemann
- Complex adaptive systems and the origins of adaptive structure: what experiments can tell us / Hannah Cornish, Monica Tamariz, and Simon Kirby Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
- Meaning in the making: meaning potential emerging from acts of meaning / Zoltan D'Ornyei
- Individual differences: interplay of learner characteristics and learning environment if language is a complex adaptive system, what is language assessment? / Robert J. Mislevy and Chengbin Yin.
- Notes:
- "In celebration of Language Learning's 60th anniversary in 2008, the journal hosted a conference at the University of Michigan on the theme of "Language as a Complex Adaptive System."."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781444334005
- 144433400X
- OCLC:
- 463307587
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