The Handbook of Language Emergence

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Brian MacWhinney, William O'Grady
John Wiley & Sons, 23 dic 2014 - 656 pagine

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
 

Sommario

Contents
215
Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication
237
A Variationist Paradigm
267
The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure
292
An Emergentist Approach to Grammar
314
Common Ground
328
The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language
354
Learnability
379
Bilingualism as a Dynamic Process
511
Dynamic Systems and Language Development
537
Models of Language Production in Aphasia
559
Formulaic Language in an Emergentist Framework
578
An Emergentist Perspective
600
Index
627
Language Emergence
1
Basic Language Structures 33
14

Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning
396
A Computational Perspective
415
Perception and Production in Phonological Development
437
The Emergence of Gestures
458
A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition
478
Notes on Contributors
vii
Acknowledgments
xiii
The Emergence of Phonological Representation
35
Capturing Gradience Continuous Change and QuasiRegularity in Sound
53
The Emergence of Language Comprehension
81
Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism
100
Morphological Emergence
123
Language Change and Typology 181
144
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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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