Books

The Language Game

A radical rethink of everything we thought we knew about language.

 

Creating Language

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences

Cultural Evolution

Leading scholars report on current research that demonstrates the central role of cultural evolution in explaining human behavior

All Books

Books Citations
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2022). The language game: How improvisation created language and changed the world. New York: Basic Books; London, UK: Bantam Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2016). Creating language: Integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

Richerson, P.J. & Christiansen, M.H. (Eds.) (2013). Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language and religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Collins, C. & Edelman, S. (Eds.) (2009). Language universals. New York: Oxford University Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (Eds.) (2003). Language evolution. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (Eds.) (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics. Westport, CT: Ablex.