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Language Emergence: Implications for Applied Linguistics--Introduction to the Special Issue
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We share an interest in language. We want to understand it, its origins, structure, functions, use, acquisition, instruction, and change. We seek causes for observed effects. Scientific studies of language representation and competence and of language acquisition and use are complementary. Yet these two theoretical enterprises have traditionally been kept distinct, with models of representation (property theories) focusing on static competence, and models of acquisition (transition theories) and use focusing on dynamic process and performance. This Special Issue is motivated by the belief that our interests in language can better be furthered when it is conceived of as the emergent properties of a multi-agent, complex, dynamic, adaptive system, a conception that usefully conflates a property theory with a transition theory. Consider the history of research in the following key areas of Applied Linguistics, and some morals of each quest.
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- Authors
- Ellis, N. C., & Larsen-Freeman, D.
- Venue
- Applied Linguistics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2006-12-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 558-589
- ISSN
- 0142-6001 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-450X
- OpenAlex
- W2003043395
- Cited by
- 612
- References
- 16
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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