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Complexity in Language - Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Complexity in Language - Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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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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