The Handbook of Language Emergence/ Edited By Brian MacWhinney & William O'Grady.

"This book explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language. The authors focus on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints. In addition, the book examine forces on widely divergent time scales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution. Key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues are also addressed"-- Provided by publisher

TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Notes on Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Language Emergence; Part I Basic Language Structures ; Chapter 1 The Emergence of Phonological Representation ; 1. Introduction; 2. Phonology Is Not Morphophonology; 3. Processes Are Both Phonetic and Phonological; 4. Phonemic Perception and Representation 5. Children's Perceptions Develop toward Adult Representations6. Adults Arrive at Lexical Representations by "Undoing" Multiple Processes; 7. A Note on Morphophonology; 8. Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity in Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning ; 1. Visions of Language; 2. Motivations for an Emergentist Vision; 3. Modeling Graded Constituency, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity 4. Distributed Neural Network Models5. Modeling the Emergence of Quasi-Regular Forms through Graded Constraints on Phonological Representations; 6. Evaluation of the Distributed Neural Network Models and Comparison to Other Contemporary Approaches; 7. Summary and Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 The Emergence of Language Comprehension ; 1. Introduction; 2. The Role of Language Statistics in Comprehension Processes; 3. The PDC in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: Verb Modification Ambiguities 4. Production and Comprehension of Relative Clauses5. The PDC Approach to Relative Clauses; 6. Emergence in Comprehension, and in Production Too; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism ; 1. Introduction; 2. Sentence Processing; 3. A Processing-Based Approach to Pronoun Interpretation; 4. A Deeper Look; 5. Language Acquisition; 6. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Morphological Emergence ; 1. Introduction; 2. The Explanandum: What Is Morphology 3. Morphological Learning and Generalization in Individuals4. Individual and Social Variation; 5. Structure through Transmission; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 Metaphor and Emergentism ; 1. Introduction; 2. An Emergentist Account of Metaphor; 3. The Emergence of Novel Metaphors; 4. Conclusions; References; Chapter 7 Usage-Based Language Learning ; 1. Introduction; 2. Constructions and Their Acquisition; 3. Language Usage as a Complex Adaptive System; 4. Further Directions and Conclusions