Complexity in language developmental and evolutionary perspectives
The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recently, this issue has been complemented with the view that languages are complex adaptive systems, in which emergence and self-organization pla...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Series: | Cambridge approaches to language contact
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Complexity in language: a multifaceted phenomenon / Salikoko S. Mufwene, François Pellegrino, & Christophe Coupé
- How to Explain the Origins of Complexity in Language: A Case Study for Agreement Systems / Luc Steels & Katrien Beuls
- Complexity in Speech: Teasing Apart Culture and Cognition
- / Bart de Boer
- a complex-adaptive-systems approach to the evolution of language and the brain / Tom schoenemann
- Evolutionary complexity of social cognition, semasiographic systems, and language / William Croft / To What Extent are Phonological Inventories Complex Systems? / Christophe Coupé, Egidio Marsico, & François Pellegrino
- A Complexity View of Ontogeny as a Window on Phylogeny / Barbara Davis
- Language choice in a multilingual society: a view from complexity science / Lucía Loureiro-Porto & Maxi San Miguel
- Complexity and language contact: a socio-cognitive framework / Albert Bastardas-Boada