Language as a Complex Adaptive System
An invited conference celebrating the 60th anniversary of Language Learning.
Date
November 7-9, 2008
Venue
The Michigan League, University of Michigan
Speakers
The theme builds upon foundations laid by colleagues from different branches of linguistics, psychology, and complex systems. The speakers are active in their recognition of complexity in their respective areas, ranging from language usage, structure, and change, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, anthropology, language evolution, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and language processing, language education, individual differences, and language testing.
Sponsors
- The Language Learning Research Club
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishers
- English Language Institute, University of Michigan
- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
- Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
- School of Education, University of Michigan
- Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan