{"product_id":"language-as-a-complex-adaptive-system-isbn-9781444334005","title":"Language as a Complex Adaptive System","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e  Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial and Dedications v-vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNick C. Ellis \u0026amp; Diane Larsen-Freeman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1:  Language is a complex adaptive system: Position paper 1-26  \u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eThe Five Graces Group' Clay Beckner, Richard Blythe, Joan Bybee, Morten H. Christiansen, William Croft, Nick C. Ellis, John Holland, Jinyun Ke, Diane Larsen-Freeman, \u0026amp; Tom Schoenemann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: A usage-based account of constituency and reanalysis 27-46\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClay Beckner \u0026amp; Joan Bybee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The speech community in evolutionary language dynamics  47-63\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard A. Blythe \u0026amp; William A. Croft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Linking rule acquisition in novel phrasal constructions 64-89\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeremy K. Boyd, Erin A. Gottschalk, \u0026amp; Adele E. Goldberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Constructing a second language: Analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic constructions from usage 90-125\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNick C. Ellis \u0026amp; Diane Larsen-Freeman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: A usage-based approach to recursion in sentence processing 126-161\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMorten H. Christiansen, \u0026amp; Maryellen C. MacDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Evolution of brain and language 162-186\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eP. Thomas Schoenemann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Complex adaptive systems and the origins of adaptive structure: what experiments can tell us 187-205\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eHannah Cornish, Monica Tamariz,  \u0026amp; Simon Kirby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Meaning in the making: meaning potential emerging from acts of meaning 206-229\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristian M.I.M. Matthiessen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Individual differences: Interplay of learner characteristics and learning environment 230-248 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eZoltán Dörnyei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: If language is a complex adaptive system, what is language assessment? 249-268\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert J. Mislevy \u0026amp; Chengbin Yin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 268-275                                                   \u003c\/p\u003e \"Readers of this book are certain to gain a great sense of increased understanding, not only of the workings of language but also of current research innovations within the Emergentist paradigm. All ten of the papers are clearly written so that those with little previous exposure to this type of work will be easily engaged and be able to follow the evidence and arguments presented.\" (The Linguist List, 7 December 2010)  \u003cb\u003eNick Ellis\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Scientist in the English Language Institute, Professor of Psychology, and Associated Faculty in the Centre for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. His research interests include language acquisition, cognition, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and emergentism. He is the author of more than 130 scientific papers and chapters and has edited books on \u003ci\u003eImplicit and Explicit Learning of Languages\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Spelling: Theory, Process and Intervention\u003c\/i\u003e (John Wiley, 1994, with Gordon Brown), and \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition\u003c\/i\u003e (2008, with Peter Robinson). He served as editor of \u003ci\u003eLanguage Learning\u003c\/i\u003e from 1998–2002 and is currently the general Editor.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiane Larsen-Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist at the English Language Institute of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her books include: \u003ci\u003eDiscourse Analysis in Second Language Research\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), \u003ci\u003eThe Grammar Book\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Marianne Celce-Murcia, 1983; 1999), \u003ci\u003eTechniques and Principles in Language Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e (1986; 2000), \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Michael Long, 1991), \u003ci\u003eTeaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), and \u003ci\u003eComplex Systems and Applied Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Lynne Cameron,  2008). From 1980- 1985, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was Editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eLanguage Learning\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e In celebration of \u003ci\u003eLanguage Learning\u003c\/i\u003e'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.\" Leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems discussed the path-breaking significance of this perspective for their work, demonstrating that an understanding of language learning can only come about from such interdisciplinary, integrated inquiry. The papers in this volume summarize this new approach and illustrate it as it applies to language usage, structure, and change, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, anthropology, language evolution, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and language processing, language education, individual differences, and language testing.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989507981541,"sku":"NP9781444334005","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444334005.jpg?v=1761784385","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/language-as-a-complex-adaptive-system-isbn-9781444334005","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}