| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The frontiers collection, 1612-3018 |
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Frontiers collection
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| Contents |
Introduction / K. Smith, P.-M. Binder -- Neurobiology: Language By, In, Through and Across the Brain / Ralph-Axel Müller -- Dialogue: Interactive Alignment and Its Implications for Language Learning and Language Change / Simon Garrod, Martin J. Pickering -- Learning: Statistical Mechanisms in Language Acquisition / Elizabeth Wonnacott -- Evolution: Language Use and the Evolution of Languages / William Croft -- Transitions: The Evolution of Linguistic Replicators / Simon Kirby -- Genes: Interactions with Language on Three Levels--Inter-Individual Variation, Historical Correlations and Genetic Biasing / Dan Dediu -- Language in Nature: On the Evolutionary Roots of a Cultural Phenomenon / Willem Zuidema -- Self-Organization: Complex Dynamical Systems in the Evolution of Speech / Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -- Environment: Language Ecology and Language Death / Suzanne Romaine -- Conclusions / P.-M. Binder, K. Smith |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Consciousness |
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Theoretical Languages |
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Cognitive Psychology |
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Computing Methodologies |
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Information and Communication, Circuits |
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Evolutionary Biology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Language and languages.
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Communication -- Social aspects.
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Language
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PHILOSOPHY -- Language.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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Communication -- Social aspects
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Language and languages
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Binder, P.-M
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Smith, K
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| ISBN |
9783642360862 |
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3642360866 |
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3642360858 |
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9783642360855 |
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1299694497 |
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9781299694491 |
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