Language as a Complex Adaptive SystemISBN: 978-1-4443-3400-5
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288 pages
December 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Nick Ellis is Research Scientist in the English Language
Institute, Professor of Psychology, and Associated Faculty in the
Centre for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of
Michigan. His research interests include language acquisition,
cognition, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics,
psycholinguistics, and emergentism. He is the author of more than
130 scientific papers and chapters and has edited books on
Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages (1994),
Handbook of Spelling: Theory, Process and Intervention (John
Wiley, 1994, with Gordon Brown), and Handbook of Cognitive
Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (2008, with Peter
Robinson). He served as editor of Language Learning from
1998–2002 and is currently the general Editor.
Diane Larsen-Freeman is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist at the English Language Institute of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her books include: Discourse Analysis in Second Language Research (1980), The Grammar Book (co-authored with Marianne Celce-Murcia, 1983; 1999), Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (1986; 2000), An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research (co-authored with Michael Long, 1991), Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring (2003), and Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics (co-authored with Lynne Cameron, 2008). From 1980- 1985, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was Editor of the journal Language Learning.