Although usage-based approaches have been successfully applied to the study of both first and second language acquisition, to monolingual and bilingual developm

Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O'Donnell present a view of language as a complex adaptive system that is learned through usage. In a series of res

When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of

This book honours the contribution of Marjolijn Verspoor to the development and implementation of dynamic usage-based (DUB) approaches in second language (L2) r

Introduces students to the scientific study of language, using the basic principles of complexity theory.