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Minett, J. W. and Wang, W. S-Y. (2005) Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics. City University of Hong Kong Press.
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1. Introduction Part 1 -- Language Emergence
2. Speech and language - a human trait defined by molecular genetics -- King Chow
3. Conceptual complexity and the brain: understanding language origins -- P. Thomas Schoenemann
4. The emergence of grammar from perspective -- Brian MacWhinney
5. Polygenesis of linguistic strategies: a scenario for the emergence of languages -- Christophe Coupé Jand ean-Marie Hombert

Part 2 -- Language Acquisition
6. Multiple-cue integration in language acquisition: a connectionist model of speech segmentation and rule-like behavior -- Morten Christiansen, Christopher M. Conway and Suzanne Curtin
7. Unsupervised lexical learning as inductive inference via compression -- Chunyu Kit
8. The origin of linguistic irregularity -- Charles Yang

Part 3 -- Language Change
9. The language organism: the Leiden theory of language evolution -- George van Driem
10. Taxonomy, typology, and historical linguistics -- Merritt Ruhlen
11. Modeling language evolution -- Felipe Cucker, Steve Smale and Ding-Xuan Zhou

Part 4 -- Language and Complexity
12. Language and complexity -- Murray Gell-Mann
13. Language acquisition as a complex adaptive system -- John H. Holland
14. How many meanings does a word have? Meaning estimation in Chinese and English -- Charles Lin and Kathleen Ahrens
15. Typology and complexity -- Randy LaPolla
16. Creoles and complexity -- Bernard Comrie

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@book{minett_wang2004editedBook,
  title={Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics},
  year={2005},
  month={July},
  editor={James W. Minett and William S.-Y. Wang},
  publisher={City University of Hong Kong Press},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/minett_wang2004editedBook.html}
}

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