Language as a Complex Adaptive System

<ul> <li>Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research</li> <li>Brings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work</li> <li>Illustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition</li> </ul> <p><i>”What a breath of fresh air! As interesting a collection of papers as you are likely to find on the evolution, learning, and use of language from the point of view of both cognitive underpinnings and communicative functions.”</i>  Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</p>