Language as a complex adaptive system
Language as a complex adaptive system:
Language has a fundamentally social function. Processes of human interaction along with domain-general cognitive processes shape the structure and knowledge of language. Recent research in the cognitive sciences has demonstrated that patterns of use strongly affect how language is acquired, is used, and changes. These processes are not independent of one another but are facets of the same complex adaptive system (CAS). Language as a CAS involves the following key features: |
References
- ↑ The “Five Graces Group”: Clay Beckner, Nick C. Ellis, Richard Blythe, John Holland, Joan Bybee, Jinyun Ke, Morten H. Christiansen, Diane Larsen-Freeman, William Croft, Tom Schoenemann. (2009) Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper. Language Learning 59:Suppl. 1, December 2009, pp. 1–261. | https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-personal.umich.edu%2F~ncellis%2FNickEllis%2FPublications_files%2F**%25205%2520Graces%2520Offprint.pdf