The Language Phenomenon Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Binder, P.-M. (Editor), Smith, K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Electronic data processing.; Evolution (Biology).; Mathematics.; Consciousness.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Theoretical Languages.; Cognitive Psychology.; Computing Methodologies.; Information and Communication, Circuits.; Evolutionary Biology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36086-2
• Physical Description: VIII, 251 p. 26 illus., 13 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642360862
• ISSN: 1612-3018

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.