DST and language

[Evan Kidd]

Dear info-childes,

Some time ago I made a request for references on dynamic systems theory
(DST) and language. The responses was excellent - here are the references:


Joseph, R. (1993). "The naked neuron. Evolution and the language of thr
body and brain." New York: Plenum Press.

Kelso, Scott J.A. (1995). "Dynamic patterns. The self organization of brain
and behaviour." Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massechusetts Institute of
Technology Press.

Rodriguez,P. (1995) Representing the Structure of a Simple Context-Free
Language in a Recurrent Neural Network: A Dynamical Systems Approach UCSD
Vol. 10, No. 1, October 1995

Tucker, M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1993). Systems and languages: Implications
for acquisition. In L. B. Smith & E. Thelen (Eds.), A dynamic systems
approach to development: Applications (pp. 359-384). Cambridge: MA:MIT Press.

Hirsh-Pasek, K, Tucker, M., & Golinkoff, R. (1996) Dynamic systems
theory: Reinterpreting "Prosodic Bootstrapping" and its role in language
acquisition. In J. Morgan & K.Demuth (eds) Signal to Syntax. Mahwah, NJ:
Erlbaum.

Going the distance: A non-linear approach to change in language development
by Rick Ruhland (PhD dissertation).


Bowers, Roger (1990), "Mountains are not cones: What can we learn from
chaos?" pp. 123-136 in Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language
Acquisition (GURT 1990), ed. James A. Alatis, Georgetown University Press.


>>Lindblom, Bjorn, Peter MacNeilage, and Michael Studdert-Kennedy (1984),
"Self-organizing processes and the explanation of phonological universals,"
pp. 181-203 in Explanations for Language Universals, ed. Brian Butterworth,
Bernard Comrie, and Osten Dahl, Berlin: Mouton [also published as

Linguistics 21:1].


Mohanan, K. P. (1993), "Fields of Attraction in Phonology," pp. 61-116 in
The Last Phonological Rule, ed. John Goldsmith, University of Chicago Press.


Nicolis, John S., and Anastassis A. Katsikas (1993), "Chaotic dynamics of
linguistic-like processes at the syntactical and semantic levels: In the
pursuit of a multifractal attractor," pp. 123-231 in Patterns, Information
and Chaos in Neuronal Systems, ed. Bruce J. West, Singapore: World Scientific


Poston, Tim (1987), "Mister! Your Back Wheel's Going Round!" pp 11-36 in
Process Linguistics, ed. Thomas T. Ballmer and Wolfgang Wildgen, Tubingen:
Max Niemeyer Verlag.


"The Nonlinear Dynamics of Speech Categorization," Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 20:1:3-16.

Wildgen, W. (1990), "Basic Principles of Self-Organization in Language (pp.
415-26) In Synergetics of Cognition, ed. H. Haken and M. Stadler, Berlin:
Springer-Verlag.

van Geert, P. (1991). A dynamic systems model of cognitive and language
growth. Psychological Review, 98(1), 3 - 53

van Geert, P. (1994). Vygotskian dynamics and development. Human
Development, 37, 346 - 365.

Ruhland, R. & van Geert, P (1998). Jumping into syntax: Transitions in the
development of closed class words, 16, 65 - 95.

Ruhland, R., Wijnen, F., & van Geert, P. (1995). An exploration into the
application of dynamic systems modelling to language acquisition. In: M.
Verrips & F. Wijnen (Eds.). ASCLD, 4, ??

McCune, L. (1992). First words: A dynamic systems view. In: C. Ferguson, L.
Menn, & C. Stoel-Gammon. Phonological development: Models, research,
implications. Maryland: York

McCune, L., Vihman, M, Roug-Hellichius, L., Delery, D., & Gogate, L.
(1996). Grunt communication in human infants (homo sapiens). Journal of
Comparative Psychology, 110(1), 27 - 37.

Elman, J. (1995). Language as a dynamical system. In: Port, R. & Van
Gelder, T. (Eds.) Mind as motion: Explorations in the dynamics of
cognition. (pp 195 - 225). cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Cooper, D. (1998). Linguistic attractors: The cognitive dynamics of
language acquisition and change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Nelson, K. & Welsh, J. (1998) Progress in multiple language domains by deaf
children and hearing children: Discussions wthin a rare event transactional
model of language delay. In: R. Paul (ed) Exploring the speech-language
connection (pp 179 - 225). Baltimore: Brooks.

Nelson, K. (1998). Toward a differentiated account of facilitators of
literacy development and ASL in deaf children. Top. Lang. Disord. 18(4), 73
- 88.
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Evan Kidd
School of Psychological Science
Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering
La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083
Victoria, Australia

Ph: + 61 3 9479 5150
Fax: +61 3 9479 1956

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