MacWhinney, B. (2008) How mental models encode embodied linguistic perspectives. In Klatzky, R., MacWhinney, B., and Behrmann, M. (Eds.) . Embodied cognition (pp. 365-405). Lawrence Erlbaum.

MacWhinnney, B. (2006) The emergence of linguistic form in time. Connection Science, 17, 191-211.

MacWhinney, B. (2005) Language evolution and human development. In Bjorklund, D. & Pellegrini, A. Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (pp. 383-410). New York: Guilford.

MacWhinney, B. (2002) Language emergence. In Burmeister, P., Piske, T., and Rohde, A.(Eds.) An integrated view of language development - Papers in honor of Henning Wode. pp. 17-42. Trier: Wissenshaftliche Verlag. This chapter explains how emergence operates across five time frames. This is illustrated with examples from neural networks, lexical development, and evolution.

MacWhinney, B. (1998). Models of the emergence of language. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 199-227. How emergentist concepts can apply to various levels of language learning.

MacWhinney, B. (1977) Starting points. Language, 53, 152-187. This paper develops the idea that understanding a sentence requires the listener to "get inside" the sentence through assuming the causal role of the starting point (typically the subject).