The Handbook of Language Emergence (eBook)
by Brian MacWhinney, William O'Grady (Author)
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- 289,454 Words
- 656 Pages
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
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- Released: December 23, 2014
- Categories: Reference
- Language: English
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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- ISBN-13: 9781118346099
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