MacWhinney / O'Grady The Handbook of Language Emergence

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-34608-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 656 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacWhinney, Brian

O'Grady, William

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
I. Basic Language Structures:
1. The Emergence of Phonological Representation
Patricia Donegan
2. Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularityin Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning
Jay McClelland
3. The Emergence of Language Comprehension
Maryellen McDonald
4. Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism
William O'Grady
5. Morphological Emergence
Péter Racz, Janet Pierre-Humbert, Jennifer Hay, &Viktoria Papp
6. Metaphor and Emergentism
Zoltán Kövecses
7. Usage-based Language Learning
Nick Ellis, Matthew O'Donnell, & Ute Römer
II. Language Change and Typology
8. Emergence at the Crosslinguistic Level: Attractor Dynamicsin Language Change
Joan Bybee and Clayton Beckner
9. The Diachronic Genesis of Synchronic Syntax
Tom Givón
10. Typological Variation and Efficient Processing
John Hawkins
11. Word meanings across languages support efficientcommunication
Terry Regier, Charles Kemp, and Paul Kay
III. Interactional Structures
12. Linguistic Emergence on the Ground - a VariationistParadigm
Shana Poplack and Rena Torres Cacoullos
13. The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure
Paul Foulkes and Jennifer Hay
14. An Emergentist Approach to Grammar
Paul Hopper
15. Common Ground
Eve Clark
16. The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language
Dan Everett
IV. Language Learning
17. Learnability
Alexander Clark
18. Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning
Erik Thiessen and Lucy Erickson
19. Language Emergence in Development - A ComputationalPerspective
Stewart McCauley, Padraic Monaghan, & MortenChristiansen
20. Perception and Production in Phonological Development
Marilyn Vihman
21. The Emergence of Gestures
Jordan Zlatev
22. A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition
Ben Ambridge & Elena Lieven
23. Bilingualism as a Dynamic Process
Ping Li
24. Dynamic Systems and Language Development
Paul van Geert and Marjolijn Verspoor
V. Language and the Brain
25. Models of Language Production in Aphasia
Gary Dell & Nathaniel Anderson
26. Formulaic Language in an Emergentist Framework
Diana Van Lanckner Sidtis
27. Language Evolution - An Emergentist Perspective
Michael Arbib

Über Autor(innen)

Brian MacWhinney is Professor of Psychology,Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie MellonUniversity. He has published extensively over many decades, anddeveloped the Competition Model of first- and second-languageacquisition, processing, and disorders, which shows how languagelearning emerges from forces operating on lexically-based patternsacross divergent timeframes. He is the author of The CHILDESproject: Tools for Analyzing Talk, 3rd Edition (2000and editor of Mechanisms of Language Acquisition (1987) andThe Emergence of Language (1999).
William O'Grady is Professor of Linguistics at theUniversity of Hawaii. He has undertaken extensive research insyntax and language acquisition, focusing more recently on theimportance of processing for an understanding of how language worksand how it is acquired. He is the author of numerous volumesincluding Principles of Grammar and Learning (1987),Syntactic Development (1997), and How Children LearnLanguage (2005). His book, Syntactic Carpentry (2005),sets out his ideas on the centrality of the processor in languageacquisition.