The Handbook of Language Emergence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacWhinney, Brian.

Contributor:

O'Grady, William.

MacWhinney, Brian.

Series:

Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics ; v.88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Origin.

Linguistic geography.

Linguistics.

Language and languages.

Local Subjects:

Language and languages--Origin.

Linguistic geography.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (767 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Wiley, 2014.

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. <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

Contents:

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Notes on Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Language Emergence; Part I Basic Language Structures ; Chapter 1 The Emergence of Phonological Representation ; 1. Introduction; 2. Phonology Is Not Morphophonology; 3. Processes Are Both Phonetic and Phonological; 4. Phonemic Perception and Representation

5. Children's Perceptions Develop toward Adult Representations6. Adults Arrive at Lexical Representations by "Undoing" Multiple Processes; 7. A Note on Morphophonology; 8. Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity in Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning ; 1. Visions of Language; 2. Motivations for an Emergentist Vision; 3. Modeling Graded Constituency, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity

4. Distributed Neural Network Models5. Modeling the Emergence of Quasi-Regular Forms through Graded Constraints on Phonological Representations; 6. Evaluation of the Distributed Neural Network Models and Comparison to Other Contemporary Approaches; 7. Summary and Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 The Emergence of Language Comprehension ; 1. Introduction; 2. The Role of Language Statistics in Comprehension Processes; 3. The PDC in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: Verb Modification Ambiguities

4. Production and Comprehension of Relative Clauses5. The PDC Approach to Relative Clauses; 6. Emergence in Comprehension, and in Production Too; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism ; 1. Introduction; 2. Sentence Processing; 3. A Processing-Based Approach to Pronoun Interpretation; 4. A Deeper Look; 5. Language Acquisition; 6. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Morphological Emergence ; 1. Introduction; 2. The Explanandum: What Is Morphology

3. Morphological Learning and Generalization in Individuals4. Individual and Social Variation; 5. Structure through Transmission; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 Metaphor and Emergentism ; 1. Introduction; 2. An Emergentist Account of Metaphor; 3. The Emergence of Novel Metaphors; 4. Conclusions; References; Chapter 7 Usage-Based Language Learning ; 1. Introduction; 2. Constructions and Their Acquisition; 3. Language Usage as a Complex Adaptive System; 4. Further Directions and Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-118-34609-2

1-119-07538-6

1-118-34613-0

OCLC:

886382599