Copyright © American Speech-Language-Hearing Association From: Increasing the Odds: Applying Emergentist Theory in Language Intervention Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2011;42(4):580-591. doi:10.1044/0161-1461(2011/10-0041) Legend: Emergentist theories of child language acquisition have been advanced by the interplay of the theories with evidence from connectionist models, behavioral or experimental evidence, and validation of the theories and models with brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging. Date of download: 10/8/2017 Copyright © American Speech-Language-Hearing Association