The Language Phenomenon
Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia
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ISBN-13:
9783642360855
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
20.04.2013
Seiten:
260
Autor:
K. Smith
Gewicht:
559 g
Format:
241x160x19 mm
Serie:
The Frontiers Collection
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This volume contains an up-to-date, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast and small scales (fractions of a second, a few neurons) to slow and large (a million years, all of mankind). 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, 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.
Exciting interdisciplinary topic
Introduction.-Neurobiology: Language by, in, through and across the brain.- Dialogue.- Learning: Statistical mechanisms in language acquisition.- Evolution: Language use and the evolution of languages.- Transitions: The evolution of linguistic replicators.- Genes: Interactions with language on three levels.- Language in Nature: On the evolutionary roots of a cultural phenomenon.- Self-Organization: Complex dynamical systems in the evolution of speech.- Environment: Language ecology and language death.- Conclusions.