The Handbook of Language Emergence (Paperback)

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Language Emergence 1

Brian MacWhinney

Part I Basic Language Structures 33

1 The Emergence of Phonological Representation 35

Patricia Donegan

2 Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity in Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning 53

James L. McClelland

3 The Emergence of Language Comprehension 81

Maryellen C. MacDonald

4 Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism 100

William O’Grady

5 Morphological Emergence 123

Péter Rácz, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Jennifer B. Hay, and Viktória Papp

6 Metaphor and Emergentism 147

Zoltán Kövecses

7 Usage-Based Language Learning 163

Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Brook O’Donnell, and Ute Römer

Part II Language Change and Typology 181

8 Emergence at the Cross-Linguistic Level: Attractor Dynamics in Language Change 183

Joan Bybee and Clay Beckner

9 The Diachronic Genesis of Synchronic Syntax 201

T. Givón

10 Typological Variation and Efficient Processing 215

John A. Hawkins

11 Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication 237

Terry Regier, Charles Kemp, and Paul Kay

Part III Interactional Structures 265

12 Linguistic Emergence on the Ground: A Variationist Paradigm 267

Shana Poplack and Rena Torres Cacoullos

13 The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure 292

Paul Foulkes and Jennifer B. Hay

14 An Emergentist Approach to Grammar 314

Paul J. Hopper

15 Common Ground 328

Eve V. Clark

16 The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language 354

Daniel L. Everett

Part IV Language Learning 377

17 Learnability 379

Alexander Clark

18 Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning 396

Erik Thiessen and Lucy Erickson

19 Language Emergence in Development: A Computational Perspective 415

Stewart M. McCauley, Padraic Monaghan, and Morten H. Christiansen

20 Perception and Production in Phonological Development 437

Marilyn Vihman

21 The Emergence of Gestures 458

Jordan Zlatev

22 A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition 478

Ben Ambridge and Elena Lieven

23 Bilingualism as a Dynamic Process 511

Ping Li

24 Dynamic Systems and Language Development 537

Paul van Geert and Marjolijn Verspoor

Part V Language and the Brain 557

25 Models of Language Production in Aphasia 559

Gary S. Dell and Nathaniel D. Anderson

26 Formulaic Language in an Emergentist Framework 578

Diana Van Lancker Sidtis

27 Language Evolution: An Emergentist Perspective 600

Michael A. Arbib

Index 625