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THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE. Brian MacWhinney (Ed.).Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. xvii + 500. $99.95 cloth, $45.00 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2001

Naomi Bolotin
Naomi Bolotin
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
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Abstract

This book contains 16 papers that were presented at the 28th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition in 1997, entitled “Emergentist Approaches to Language Acquisition.” Emergentism assumes that linguistic properties arise from the interaction of general-purpose cognitive processes with environmental data, rather than from prewired, language-specific constraints.

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REVIEWS
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 587 - 589
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2000 Cambridge University Press

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