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The language phenomenon : human communication from milliseconds to millennia

By Philippe M Binder , K. Smith (eds)

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2013
ISBN
3642360858, 978-3-642-36085-5, 9781299694491, 1299694497, 978-3-642-36086-2, 3642360866
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-36086-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2728060 bytes)
Series
Frontiers collection
Edition
2013
Pages
251\255
Library
kolxoz
Time added
2016-05-22 07:20:00
Circuits;Evolutionary BiologyDynamical Systems and Complexity;Theoretical LanguStatistical Physics

Description

This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the relation between language and genes, the origins of language, self-organization, and language competition and death. The book as a whole will help to show how processes at different scales affect each other, thus presenting language as a dynamic, complex and profoundly human phenomenon.

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