The Language Phenomenon: Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia (The Frontiers Collection)
Publisher: Springer
Published: Apr 05, 2013
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9783642360862
Description: 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.