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  • Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research
  • Brings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work
  • Illustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition

"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." Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Language as a Complex Adaptive System

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 19/02/2010
    ISBN13: 9781444334005, 978-1444334005
    ISBN10: 144433400X

    Number of Pages: 288

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    • Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research
    • Brings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work
    • Illustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition

    "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." Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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