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

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, lan...

Table of Contents:

• 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.