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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.

Cognitive psychology --- Mathematics --- Statistical physics --- Physics --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Programming --- Information systems --- Linguistics --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- theoretische fysica --- cognitieve psychologie --- informatiesystemen --- Europees recht --- systeemontwikkeling (informatica) --- wiskunde --- methodologieën --- fysica

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Comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG7), held in Barcelona in March 2008. This collection presents the theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution. It includes contributions from scientists such as Derek Bickerton, Rudolf Botha, and Simon Kirby.

Language and languages --- Origin --- Etymology --- Historical linguistics