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Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 6th International Conference (Evolang6)

Author : Angelo Cangelosi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814478628
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 6th International Conference (Evolang6) written by Angelo Cangelosi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Evolution of Language

Author : Angelo Cangelosi
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9812566562
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Language written by Angelo Cangelosi and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 9th International Conference (Evolang9)

Author : Erica A Cartmill
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981440151X
Total Pages : 599 pages
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Download or read book Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 9th International Conference (Evolang9) written by Erica A Cartmill and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of Evolang IX, the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language.The Evolang conferences are the leading international conferences for new findings in the study of the origins and evolution of language. They attract a multidisciplinary audience. The proceedings are an important resource for researchers in the field.

Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 7th International Conference (Evolang7)

Author : Andrew D M Smith
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814472492
Total Pages : 531 pages
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Download or read book Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 7th International Conference (Evolang7) written by Andrew D M Smith and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG7), held in Barcelona in March 2008. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterized by an invigorating, multidisciplinary approach to the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many fields including anthropology, archeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, computer science, ethology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, paleontology, primatology, psychology and statistical physics.The latest theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution is presented in this collection. It includes contributions from leading scientists such as Derek Bickerton, Rudolf Botha, Camilo Cela Conde, Francesco d'Erico, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Simon Kirby, Gary Marcus, Friedemann Pulvermüller and Juan Uriagereka./a

Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 8th International Conference (Evolang8)

Author : Andrew D M Smith
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814465682
Total Pages : 553 pages
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Download or read book Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 8th International Conference (Evolang8) written by Andrew D M Smith and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG8), held in Utrecht on 14-17 April 2010. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterized by an invigorating, multidisciplinary approach to the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, computer science, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology and psychology.The latest theoretical, experimental and modelling research on language evolution is presented in this collection, including contributions from many leading scientists in the field.

Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 10th International Conference (Evolang X)

Author : Erica A Cartmill
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814603643
Total Pages : 591 pages
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Download or read book Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 10th International Conference (Evolang X) written by Erica A Cartmill and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANGX), held in Vienna on 14-17th April 2014. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterised by an invigorating, multidisciplinary approach to the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, computer science, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology and psychology.For this 10th conference, the proceedings will include a special perspectives section featuring prominent researchers reflecting on the history of the conference and its impact on the field of language evolution since the inaugural EVOLANG conference in 1996.

The Evolution of Language

Author : International Conference EVOLANG
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789812566560
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (665 download)

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The Emergence of Protolanguage

Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287821
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Protolanguage written by Michael A. Arbib and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the last common ancestors of humans and the great apes, our ancestors “got” language. The authors of this volume all agree that there was no single mutation or cultural innovation that took our ancestors directly from a limited system of a few vocalizations (primarily innate) and gestures (some learned) to language. They further agree to use the term “protolanguage” for the beginnings of an open system of symbolic communication that provided the bridge to the use of fully expressive languages, rich in both lexicon and grammar. But here consensus ends, and the theories presented here range from the compositional view that protolanguage was based primarily on words akin to the nouns and verbs, etc., we know today with only syntax lacking to the holophrastic view that protolanguage used protowords which had no meaningful subunits which might nonetheless refer to complex but significantly recurrent events. The present volume does not decide the matter but it does advance our understanding. The lack of any direct archaeological record of protolanguage might seem to raise insuperable difficulties. However, this volume exhibits the diversity of methodologies that can be brought to bear in developing datasets that can be used to advance the debate. These articles were originally published as Interaction Studies 9:1 (2008).

Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable

Author : Geoffrey Sampson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199545219
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable written by Geoffrey Sampson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book challenges the idea that languages are equally complex. Eighteen scholars look at evidence from a wide range of times and places. They consider the links between linguistic structure and change and social complexity. Their conclusions challenge conventional ideas about the nature of language and contemporary theory.

How the Brain Got Language

Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199896682
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book How the Brain Got Language written by Michael A. Arbib and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror System Hypothesis. Because of mirror neurons, monkeys, chimps, and humans can learn by imitation, but only "complex imitation," which humans exhibit, is powerful enough to support the breakthrough to language. This theory provides a path from the openness of manual gesture, which we share with nonhuman primates, through the complex imitation of manual skills, pantomime, protosign (communication based on conventionalized manual gestures), and finally to protospeech. The theory explains why we humans are as capable of learning sign languages as we are of learning to speak. This fascinating book shows how cultural evolution took over from biological evolution for the transition from protolanguage to fully fledged languages. The author explains how the brain mechanisms that made the original emergence of languages possible, perhaps 100,000 years ago, are still operative today in the way children acquire language, in the way that new sign languages have emerged in recent decades, and in the historical processes of language change on a time scale from decades to centuries. Though the subject is complex, this book is highly readable, providing all the necessary background in primatology, neuroscience, and linguistics to make the book accessible to a general audience.

Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution

Author : Luc Steels
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902720456X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution written by Luc Steels and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the cultural side of language evolution. This book proposes a framework based on linguistic selection and self-organization. It investigates how particular types of language systems can emerge in the population of language game playing agents and how they can continue to evolve in order to cope with changes in ecological conditions.

The Genesis of Grammar

Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191527831
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of Grammar written by Bernd Heine and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. "Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or hypothesized," wrote Talmy Givón in 2002. As the languages spoken 8,000 years ago were typologically much the same as they are today and as no direct evidence exists for languages before then, evolutionary linguists are at a disadvantage compared to their counterparts in biology. Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva seek to overcome this obstacle by combining grammaticalization theory, one of the main methods of historical linguistics, with work in animal communication and human evolution. The questions they address include: do the modern languages derive from one ancestral language or from more than one? What was the structure of language like when it first evolved? And how did the properties associated with modern human languages arise, in particular syntax and the recursive use of language structures? The authors proceed on the assumption that if language evolution is the result of language change then the reconstruction of the former can be explored by deploying the processes involved in the latter. Their measured arguments and crystal-clear exposition will appeal to all those interested in the evolution of language, from advanced undergraduates to linguists, cognitive scientists, human biologists, and archaeologists.

The Cradle of Language

Author : Rudolf Botha
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199545855
Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book The Cradle of Language written by Rudolf Botha and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. The book also considers parallel developments among Europe's Neanderthals and the contrasting outcomes for the two species. Following an extensiveintroduction contextualizing and linking the book's topics and approaches, fifteen chapters bring together many of the most significant recent findings and developments in modern human origins research. The fields represented by the authors include genetics, biology, behavioural ecology, linguistics,archaeology, cognitive science, and anthropology.

The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism

Author : Lourdes Ortega
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626163251
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism written by Lourdes Ortega and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how language acquisition, in particular multilingual language acquisition, works. Each chapter presents an original study that supports the view that language learning is initiated through local and meaningful communication with others. Over an accumulated history of such usage, people gradually create more abstract, interactive schematic representations, or a mental grammar. This process of acquiring language is the same for infants and adults and across varied contexts, such as the family, the classroom, the laboratory, a hospital, or a public encounter. Employing diverse methodologies to study this process, the contributors here work with target languages, including Cantonese, English, French, French Sign Language, German, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Spanish, and Swedish, and offer a much-needed exploration of this growing area of linguistic research.

Research Methods in Linguistics

Author : Robert Podesva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107014336
Total Pages : 545 pages
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Download or read book Research Methods in Linguistics written by Robert Podesva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to cover the range of research methods currently employed across the field of linguistics.

Enacting Intersubjectivity

Author : F. Morganti
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607503220
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Enacting Intersubjectivity written by F. Morganti and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008-04-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years a new trend in socio-cognitive research investigates into the mental capacities that allow humans to relate to each other and to engage in social interactions. One of the main streams is the study of intersubjectivity, namely the ‘mutual sharing of experiences’, conceived of as a basic dimension of consciousness on which socialness is grounded. At the very heart of contemporary studies is an intense debate around some central questions that concern the nature and forms of human intersubjectivity, its development and its role in situated joint activities. Striving to achieve a unified theoretical framework, these studies are characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach founded on philosophical accounts, conceptual analysis, neuroscientific results and experimental data offered by developmental and comparative psychology. This book aims to give a general overview of this relevant and innovative area of research by bringing together seventeen contributions by eminent scholars who address the more relevant issues in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization

Author : Heiko Narrog
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191618055
Total Pages : 952 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization written by Heiko Narrog and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world introduce and discuss the core theoretical and methodological bases of grammaticalization, report on work in the field, and point to promising directions for new research. They represent every relevant theoretical perspective and approach. Research on grammaticalization and its role in linguistic change encompasses work on languages from every major linguistic family. Its results offer valuable insights for all theoretical frameworks, including generative, construction, and cognitive grammar, and relate to work in fields such as phonology, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition. The handbook is divided into five parts, of which the first two are devoted to theory and method, the third and fourth to work in linguistic domains, classes, and cateogories, and the fifth to case studies of grammaticalization in a range of languages. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who wish to know more about this fascinating and important field.