The handbook of language emergence /

"This book explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language. The authors focus on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints. In addition, the book examine forces...

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Other Authors: MacWhinney, Brian (Editor), O'Grady, William (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Series:Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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Summary:"This book explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language. The authors focus on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints. In addition, the book examine forces on widely divergent time scales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution. Key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues are also addressed"--
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781118346099
1118346092
9781118346082
1118346084
9781118346136
1118346130
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9781322949604
DOI:10.1002/9781118346136