The Handbook of Language Emergence

<p>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.</p> <ul> <li>Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism</li> <li>Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints</li> <li>Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution</li> <li>Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever</li> </ul>