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The Language Phenomenon Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Binder, P.-M (Editor ), Smith, K. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:The Frontiers Collection,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.