The emergence of language [electronic resource] / edited by Brian MacWhinney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

Emergence of language : a conspiracy theory / Jeffrey L. Elman -- On the emergence of grammar from the lexicon / Elizabeth Bates and Judith C. Goodman -- Generativity and variation : the notion 'rule of grammar' revisited / T. Givón -- Emergence of grammaticality in connectionist networks / Joseph Allen and Mark S. Seidenberg -- Disambiguation and grammar as emergent soft constraints / Risto Miikkulainen and Marshall R. Mayberry, III -- Distributional information in language comprehension, production, and acquisition : three puzzles and a moral / Maryellen C. MacDonald -- Emergence of the semantics of argument structure constructions / Adele E. Goldberg -- Emergence of language from embodiment / Brian MacWhinney -- Social perspectives on the emergence of language / Catherine E. Snow -- Children's noun learning : how general learning processes make specialized learning mechanisms / Linda B. Smith -- Emergent cues for early word learning / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and George Hollich -- Competition, attention, and young children's lexical processing / William E. Merriman -- Statistical learning in linguistic and nonlinguistic domains / Richard N. Aslin, Jenny R. Saffran, and Elissa L. Newport -- Emergence of phonology from the interplay of speech comprehension and production : a distributed connectionist approach / David C. Plaut and Christopher T. Kello -- Emergence of faithfulness / Joseph Paul Stemberger and Barbara Handford Bernhardt -- Emergence of language from serial order and procedural memory / Prahlad Gupta and Gary S. Dell.

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