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The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Author | : Chris Knight,Michael Studdert-Kennedy,James Hurford |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2000-11-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521786967 |
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Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous levels of social cooperation. Phonetic competence correspondingly reflects social pressures for vocal imitation, learning, and other forms of social transmission. Distinctively human social and cultural strategies gave rise to the complex syntactical structure of speech. This book, presenting language as a remarkable social adaptation, testifies to the growing influence of evolutionary thinking in contemporary linguistics. It will be welcomed by all those interested in human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology, and general linguistics.
The Handbook of Language Emergence
Author | : Brian MacWhinney,William O'Grady |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 651 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781119075387 |
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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
The Emergence and Development of English
Author | : William A. Kretzschmar, Jr |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-10-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108469982 |
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Presents a beginner's introduction to the history of the English language, incorporating complex systems, the scientific model behind human speech.
The Emergence of Language
Author | : Brian MacWhinney |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781135676919 |
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For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has the contrast between these apparent alternatives been sharper than in the study of language acquisition. However, as more is learned about the details of language learning, it is found that neither nativism nor empiricism provides guidance about the ways in which complexity arises from the interaction of simpler developmental forces. For example, the child's first guesses about word meanings arise from the interplay between parental guidance, the child's perceptual preferences, and neuronal support for information storage and retrieval. As soon as the shape of the child's lexicon emerges from these more basic forces, an exploration of "emergentism" as a new alternative to nativism and empiricism is ready to begin. 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.
Language in Cognitive Development
Author | : Katherine Nelson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1998-03-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 052162987X |
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This book discusses the role of language as a cognitive and communicative tool in a child's early development.
The Extended Mind
Author | : Robert K. Logan |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2008-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781442691803 |
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The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture. Building on his previous study, The Sixth Language (2000) and making use of emergence theory, Logan seeks to explain how language emerged to deal with the complexity of hominid existence brought about by tool-making, control of fire, social intelligence, coordinated hunting and gathering, and mimetic communication. The resulting emergence of language, he argues, signifies a fundamental change in the functioning of the human mind - a shift from percept-based thought to concept-based thought. From the perspective of the Extended Mind model, Logan provides an alternative to and critique of Noam Chomsky's approach to the origin of language. He argues that language can be treated as an organism that evolved to be easily acquired, obviating the need for the hard-wiring of Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device. In addition Logan shows how, according to this model, culture itself can be treated as an organism that has evolved to be easily attained, revealing the universality of human culture as well as providing an insight as to how altruism might have originated. Bringing timely insights to a fascinating field of inquiry, The Extended Mind will be sure to find a wide readership.
Cognitive Development and Acquisition of Language
Author | : Timothy E. Moore |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781483294568 |
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Cognitive Development and Acquisition of Language
The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Author | : Jeff Siegel |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2008-02-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199216666 |
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This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies.