The Language Phenomenon
Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia
Herausgegeben: Binder, P.-M.; Smith, K.
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This volume contains an up-to-date, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast and small scales (fractions of a second, a few neurons) to slow and large (a million years, all of mankind). 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, 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...
This volume contains an up-to-date, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast and small scales (fractions of a second, a few neurons) to slow and large (a million years, all of mankind). 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, 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.
