Language as a complex adaptive system /
Ellis, Nick C.
Larsen-Freeman, Diane.
Research Club in Language Learning (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell,
c2009.
"In celebration of Language Learning's 60th anniversary in 2008, the journal hosted a conference at the University of Michigan on the theme of "Language as a Complex Adaptive System."."
Language is a complex adaptive system : position paper / 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) -- 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 -- Meaning in the making : meaning potential emerging from acts of meaning / Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen -- Individual differences : interplay of learner characteristics and learning environment / Zoltan D'Ornyei -- If language is a complex adaptive system, what is language assessment? / Robert J. Mislevy and Chengbin Yin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language acquisition
Second language acquisition research.
Language and languages