| The Language Phenomenon: Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia 2013 Edition Contributor(s): Binder, P. -M (Editor), Smith, K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3642360858 ISBN-13: 9783642360855 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Applied - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 006 |
| Series: Frontiers Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.10 lbs) 251 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |