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The articles in this volume, written by leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems, summarize this new approach to language and illustrate its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition.

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Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language researchBrings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their workIllustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition "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."  Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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In celebration of Language Learning '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.

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In celebration of Language Learning '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.

Author Biography

Nick Ellis 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 Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages (1994), Handbook of Spelling: Theory, Process and Intervention (John Wiley, 1994, with Gordon Brown), and Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (2008, with Peter Robinson). He served as editor of Language Learning from 1998–2002 and is currently the general Editor. Diane Larsen-Freeman 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: Discourse Analysis in Second Language Research (1980), The Grammar Book (co-authored with Marianne Celce-Murcia, 1983; 1999), Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (1986; 2000), An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research (co-authored with Michael Long, 1991), Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring (2003), and Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics (co-authored with Lynne Cameron,  2008). From 1980- 1985, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was Editor of the journal Language Learning.

Table of Contents

Editorial and Dedications v-viiNick C. Ellis & Diane Larsen-Freeman Chapter 1:  Language is a complex adaptive system: Position paper 1-26  'The Five Graces Group' Clay Beckner, Richard Blythe, Joan Bybee, Morten H. Christiansen, William Croft, Nick C. Ellis, John Holland, Jinyun Ke, Diane Larsen-Freeman, & Tom Schoenemann Chapter 2: A usage-based account of constituency and reanalysis 27-46Clay Beckner & Joan Bybee Chapter 3: The speech community in evolutionary language dynamics  47-63Richard A. Blythe & William A. Croft Chapter 4: Linking rule acquisition in novel phrasal constructions 64-89Jeremy K. Boyd, Erin A. Gottschalk, & Adele E. Goldberg Chapter 5: Constructing a second language: Analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic constructions from usage 90-125Nick C. Ellis & Diane Larsen-Freeman Chapter 6: A usage-based approach to recursion in sentence processing 126-161Morten H. Christiansen, & Maryellen C. MacDonald Chapter 7: Evolution of brain and language 162-186P. Thomas Schoenemann Chapter 8: Complex adaptive systems and the origins of adaptive structure: what experiments can tell us 187-205Hannah Cornish, Monica Tamariz,  & Simon Kirby Chapter 9: Meaning in the making: meaning potential emerging from acts of meaning 206-229Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen Chapter 10: Individual differences: Interplay of learner characteristics and learning environment 230-248 Zoltán Dörnyei Chapter 11: If language is a complex adaptive system, what is language assessment? 249-268Robert J. Mislevy & Chengbin Yin Subject Index 268-275                                                   

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"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)

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In celebration of Language Learning 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.

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"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)

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"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)

Details ISBN144433400X Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd ISBN-10 144433400X ISBN-13 9781444334005 Format Paperback Imprint Wiley-Blackwell DEWEY 407.2 Language English Media Book Short Title LANGUAGE AS A COM-60TH ANNIV/E Edition Description Anniversary Edition 60th Illustrations Yes Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-02-19 Series Number 11 UK Release Date 2010-02-19 AU Release Date 2010-02-19 NZ Release Date 2010-02-19 US Release Date 2010-02-19 Author Diane Larsen-Freeman Pages 288 Series Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series Place of Publication Hoboken Audience Professional & Vocational Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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