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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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This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG6). The biennial EVOLANG conference focuses on the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, computer science, ethology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology, and psychology.The collection presents the latest theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution, and includes contributions from the leading scientists in the field, including T Fitch, V Gallese, S Mithen, D Parisi, A Piazza & L Cavali Sforza, R Seyfarth & D Cheney, L Steels, L Talmy and M Tomasello.

Historical linguistics. --- Language and languages --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Origin --- History --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Historical linguistics --- LANGUAGE & LANGUAGES--ORIGIN. --- Anthropological --- Historical --- Language