Language as a complex adaptive system /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Research Club in Language Learning (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Other Authors:	Ellis, Nick C., Larsen-Freeman, Diane
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Series:	Language learning ; v. 59, suppl. 1.
Subjects:	Language acquisition > Research. Second language acquisition research. Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Online Access:	Publisher description Table of contents only Contributor biographical information

Table of Contents:

The "five graces group" / (Clay Beckner, Richard Blythe, Joan Bybee, Morten H. Christiansen, William Croft, Nick C. Ellis, John Holland, Jinyun Ke, Diane Larsen-Freeman, and Tom Schoenemann)
Language is a complex adaptive system: position : paper A usage-based account of constituency and reanalysis / Clay Beckner and Joan Bybee
The speech community in evolutionary language dynamics / Richard A. Blythe and William A. Croft
Linking rule acquisition in novel phrasal constructions / Jeremy K. Boyd, Erin A. Gottschalk, and Adele E. Goldberg
Constructing a second language: analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic, constructions from usage / Nick C. Ellis and Diane Larsen-Freeman
A usage-based approach to recursion in sentence processing / Morten H. Christiansen and Maryellen C. MacDonald
Evolution of brain and language / P. Thomas Schoenemann
Complex adaptive systems and the origins of adaptive structure: what experiments can tell us / Hannah Cornish, Monica Tamariz, and Simon Kirby Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Meaning in the making: meaning potential emerging from acts of meaning / Zoltan D'Ornyei
Individual differences: interplay of learner characteristics and learning environment if language is a complex adaptive system, what is language assessment? / Robert J. Mislevy and Chengbin Yin.