Complexity in Language (eBook, ePUB)

Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives
Redaktion: Mufwene, Salikoko S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 play major roles. However, few students of the phenomenon have gone beyond the basic assessment of the number of units and rules in a language (what has been characterized as 'bit complexity') or shown some familiarity with the science of complexity. This book reveals how much can be learned by overcoming these limitations, especially by adopting developmental and evolutionary perspectives. The contributors include specialists of language acquisition, evolution and ecology, grammaticization, phonology, and modeling, all of whom approach languages as dynamical, emergent, and adaptive complex systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316942031
• Artikelnr.: 49271868

Inhaltsangabe

1. Complexity in language: a multifaceted phenomenon Salikoko S. Mufwene,
François Pellegrino and Christophe Coupé; 2. How robotic agents agree to
communicate Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls; 3. Self-organization in language
Bart de Boer; 4. A complex adaptive systems approach to language and brain
Tom Schoenemann; 5. Evolutionary complexity of social cognition,
semasiographic systems, and language William Croft; 6. Quantitative
analyses of phonological datasets Christophe Coupé, Egidio Marsico and
François Pellegrino; 7. Phonological acquisition as emergence Barbara
Davis; 8. Language choice in a multilingual society: a view from complexity
science Lucía Loureiro-Porto and Maxi San Miguel; 9. Complexity in/of
language: bases for a dynamic socio-cognitive view Albert Bastardas-Boada.