TY - BOOK
T1 - The Language Phenomenon
T2 - Human Communication from Milliseconds to Milennia
A2 - Binder, Philippe
A2 - Smith, Kenneth
PY - 2013/4/30
Y1 - 2013/4/30
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.
AB - 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.
M3 - Book
SN - 978-3-642-36085-5
T3 - The Frontiers Collection
BT - The Language Phenomenon
PB - Springer
ER -