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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
Editions of The Handbook of Language Emergence
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781118301753
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781119075387
- EBook
- ISBN 9781118346082
- EBook
- ISBN 9781118346051
- EBook
- ISBN 9781118346099
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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
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What is The Handbook of Language Emergence about?
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
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Handbook of Language Emergence?
Language and Linguistics > Linguistics
Where can I read a sample of The Handbook of Language Emergence?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781118301753
Is The Handbook of Language Emergence part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Handbook of Language Emergence?
John Wiley & Sons
Who is the Publisher of the book The Handbook of Language Emergence?
Wiley
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The Handbook of Language Emergence is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781118301753) and paperback(ISBN 9781119075387) and ebook(ISBN 9781118346082) and ebook(ISBN 9781118346051) and ebook(ISBN 9781118346099)
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