TY  - BOOK
AU  - Binder,P.-M.
AU  - Smith,K.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Language Phenomenon: Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia 
T2  - The Frontiers Collection,
SN  - 9783642360862
AV  - QC174.7-175.36 
U1  - 621 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Physics
KW  - Computers
KW  - Evolutionary biology
KW  - Information theory
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Statistical physics
KW  - Dynamical systems
KW  - Cognitive psychology
KW  - Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
KW  - Theoretical Linguistics
KW  - Cognitive Psychology
KW  - Computing Methodologies
KW  - Information and Communication, Circuits
KW  - Evolutionary Biology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36086-2
ER  -