Emergence of Language

This book presents a series of emergentist accounts of language acquisition. Each case shows how a few simple, basic processes give rise to new levels of language complexity. The aspects of language examined here include auditory representations, phonological and articulatory processes, lexical semantics, ambiguity processing, grammaticality judgment, and sentence comprehension. The approaches that are invoked to account formally for emergent patterns include neural network theory, dynamic systems, linguistic functionalism, construction grammar, optimality theory, and statistically-driven learning. The excitement of this work lies both in the discovery of new emergent patterns and in the integration of theoretical frameworks that can formalize the theory of emergentism.

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[16]			Allen, J. and Seidenberg, M. S. (1999) The Emergence of Grammaticality in Connectionist Networks. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[15]			Aslin, R. N., Saffran, J. R., and Newport, E. L. (1999) Statistical Learning in Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Domains. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[14]		(3)	Bates, E. and Goodman, J. C. (1999) On the Emergence of Grammar From the Lexicon. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[13]		(3)	Elman, J. L. (1999) The emergence of language: A conspiracy theory. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[12]			Givón, T. (1999) Generativity and Variation: The Notion 'Rule of Grammar' Revisited. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[11]		(2)	Goldberg, A. E. (1999) The Emergence of the Semantics of Argument Structure Constructions. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[10]			Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., and Hollich, G. (1999) Emergent Cues for Early Word Learning. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[9]			Gupta, P. and Dell, G. S. (1999) The Emergence of Language From Serial Order and Procedural Memory. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[8]			MacDonald, M. C. (1999) Distributional Information in Language Comprehension, Production, and Acquisition: Three Puzzles and a Moral. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[7]		(3)	MacWhinney, B. (1999) The Emergence of Language From Embodiment. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[6]		(2)	Merriman, W. E. (1999) Competition, Attention, and Young Children's Lexical Processing. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[5]			Miikkulainen, R. and Mayberry, M. R. (1999) Disambiguation and Grammar as Emergent Soft Constraints. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[4]		(1)	Plaut, D. C. and Kello, C. T. (1999) The Emergence of Phonology From the Interplay of Speech Comprehension and Production: A Distributed Connectionist Approach. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[3]		(2)	Smith, L. B. (1999) Children's Noun Learning: How General Learning Processes Make Specialized Learning Mechanisms. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[2]			Snow, C. E. (1999) Social Perspectives on the Emergence of Language. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
[1]			Stemberger, J. P. and Bernhardt, B. H. (1999) The Emergence of Faithfulness. In B. MacWhinney, editor, Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.

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