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

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

Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: Language Emergence 1Brian MacWhinneyPart I Basic Language Structures 331 The Emergence of Phonological Representation 35Patricia Donegan2 Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity in Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning 53James L. McClelland3 The Emergence of Language Comprehension 81Maryellen C. MacDonald4 Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism 100William O'Grady5 Morphological Emergence 123Péter Rácz, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Jennifer B. Hay, and Viktória Papp6 Metaphor and Emergentism 147Zoltán Kövecses7 Usage-Based Language Learning 163Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, and Ute RömerPart II Language Change and Typology 1818 Emergence at the Cross-Linguistic Level: Attractor Dynamics in Language Change 183Joan Bybee and Clay Beckner9 The Diachronic Genesis of Synchronic Syntax 201T. Givón10 Typological Variation and Efficient Processing 215John A. Hawkins11 Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication 237Terry Regier, Charles Kemp, and Paul KayPart III Interactional Structures 26512 Linguistic Emergence on the Ground: A Variationist Paradigm 267Shana Poplack and Rena Torres Cacoullos13 The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure 292Paul Foulkes and Jennifer B. Hay14 An Emergentist Approach to Grammar 314Paul J. Hopper15 Common Ground 328Eve V. Clark16 The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language 354Daniel L. EverettPart IV Language Learning 37717 Learnability 379Alexander Clark18 Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning 396Erik Thiessen and Lucy Erickson19 Language Emergence in Development: A Computational Perspective 415Stewart M. McCauley, Padraic Monaghan, and Morten H. Christiansen20 Perception and Production in Phonological Development 437Marilyn Vihman21 The Emergence of Gestures 458Jordan Zlatev22 A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition 478Ben Ambridge and Elena Lieven23 Bilingualism as a Dynamic Process 511Ping Li24 Dynamic Systems and Language Development 537Paul van Geert and Marjolijn VerspoorPart V Language and the Brain 55725 Models of Language Production in Aphasia 559Gary S. Dell and Nathaniel D. Anderson26 Formulaic Language in an Emergentist Framework 578Diana Van Lancker Sidtis27 Language Evolution: An Emergentist Perspective 600Michael A. ArbibIndex 625