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The emergence of linguistic structure: Paul Hopper's Emergent Grammar Hypothesis revisited

open access: closedLanguage Sciences, 1997
Abstract In his programmatic paper on Emergent Grammar (1987, BLS 13, 139–157), Paul Hopper challenges the discipline of linguistics by characterizing linguistic structure as being temporal, deferred, emergent, and the study of language as a necessarily political and disputed activity.
Tilo Weber
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Emergent grammar

open access: closed, 2009
Marja‐Liisa Helasvuo
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Emergence in entity grammar systems

Kybernetes, 2009
PurposeEmergence is the kernel concept of complexity science. Lack of precision when people refer to “emergent properties” hinders the research of complex systems. The purpose of this paper is to develop a formal definition of emergence to make it intrinsic to a system and to integrate different views on emergence.Design/methodology/approachBased on ...
Rao Zheng, Kui‐Sheng Wang, Yun Wang
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Emergence of net-grammar in communicating agents

Biosystems, 1996
Evolution of symbolic language and grammar is studied in a network model. Language is expressed by words, i.e. strings of symbols, which are generated by agents with their own symbolic grammar system. Agents communicate with each other by deriving and accepting words via rewriting rule set. They are ranked according to their communicative effectiveness:
T, Hashimoto, T, Ikegami
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Time and Emergence in Grammar

2015
This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution to the understanding of grammar as thoroughly temporal ...
Simona Pekarek Doehler   +2 more
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The multilingual potential in emerging grammars

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2005
Our contribution deals with the nature of children's earliest word combinations. Based on data from monolingual (German) and bilingual (German/English) children we argue that there is no pregrammatical stage once children move beyond single-word utterances.
Gawlitzek, Ira, Tracy, Rosemarie
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Decreolization as emergent grammar(s)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2011
A restructured variety of Spanish spoken by small communities of Afro-descendents in Bolivia differs from modern Spanish in exhibiting no noun-adjective agreement for gender or number. Only a few individuals continue to speak this most basilectal variety; the majority of speakers exhibit at least some gender and number concord, in a fashion that ...
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Quantum model of emerging grammars

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2000
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The emergence of grammar: early verbs and beyond

Journal of Child Language, 2003
The paper examines the first twenty verb-forms recorded for six Hebrew-speaking children aged between 1;2 and 2;1, and how they evolve into fully inflected verbs for three of these children. Discussion focuses first on what word-forms children initially select for the verbs they produce, what role these forms play in children's emergent grammar, and ...
Sharon, Armon-Lotem, Ruth A, Berman
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