This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm. Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Language Emergence 1 Brian MacWhinney Part I Basic Language Structures 33 1 The Emergence of Phonological Representation 35 Patricia Donegan 2 Capturing Gradience, Continuous Change, and Quasi-Regularity in Sound, Word, Phrase, and Meaning 53 James L. McClelland 3 The Emergence of Language Comprehension 81 Maryellen C. MacDonald 4 Anaphora and the Case for Emergentism 100 William O'Grady 5 Morphological Emergence 123 Peter Racz, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Jennifer B. Hay, and Viktoria Papp 6 Metaphor and Emergentism 147 Zoltan Koevecses 7 Usage-Based Language Learning 163 Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, and Ute Roemer Part II Language Change and Typology 181 8 Emergence at the Cross-Linguistic Level: Attractor Dynamics in Language Change 183 Joan Bybee and Clay Beckner 9 The Diachronic Genesis of Synchronic Syntax 201 T. Givon 10 Typological Variation and Efficient Processing 215 John A. Hawkins 11 Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication 237 Terry Regier, Charles Kemp, and Paul Kay Part III Interactional Structures 265 12 Linguistic Emergence on the Ground: A Variationist Paradigm 267 Shana Poplack and Rena Torres Cacoullos 13 The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure 292 Paul Foulkes and Jennifer B. Hay 14 An Emergentist Approach to Grammar 314 Paul J. Hopper 15 Common Ground 328 Eve V. Clark 16 The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Language 354 Daniel L. Everett Part IV Language Learning 377 17 Learnability 379 Alexander Clark 18 Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning 396 Erik Thiessen and Lucy Erickson 19 Language Emergence in Development: A Computational Perspective 415 Stewart M. McCauley, Padraic Monaghan, and Morten H. Christiansen 20 Perception and Production in Phonological Development 437 Marilyn Vihman 21 The Emergence of Gestures 458 Jordan Zlatev 22 A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition 478 Ben Ambridge and Elena Lieven 23 Bilingualism as a Dynamic Process 511 Ping Li 24 Dynamic Systems and Language Development 537 Paul van Geert and Marjolijn Verspoor Part V Language and the Brain 557 25 Models of Language Production in Aphasia 559 Gary S. Dell and Nathaniel D. Anderson 26 Formulaic Language in an Emergentist Framework 578 Diana Van Lancker Sidtis 27 Language Evolution: An Emergentist Perspective 600 Michael A. Arbib Index 625