The Handbook of Language Emergence Paperback / softback
Edited by Brian (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) MacWhinney, William (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) O'Grady
Part of the Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 emergentismFocuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraintsExamines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolutionAddresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:656 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:18/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781119075387
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:656 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:18/04/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781119075387
