Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 8th International Conference (Evolang8)
Will be published approx. on 19. March 2010
Book
Hardback
552 pages
978-981-4295-21-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4295-21-5 (9789814295215)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Is Grammaticalization Glossogenetic? (G P Argyropoulos); From Neurons to Signs (D Bouchard); Prosodic Features in Northern Muriquis Vocalizations (D Demolin et al.); Information and Influence in Animal Communication (J Fischer & K Hammerschmidt); Emergence of Aktionsarten: The First Step Towards Aspect (K Gerasymova); The Effect of Social Popularities on Lnguistic Categorization (T Gong); Interplay Between Language, Navigation and Kin Selection (D Kazakov); Linguistic Arguments Probably Antedate Linguistic Predicates (E Luuk); Evolution of Grammatical Forms (M Ogura & W S-Y Wang); Acquisition Preferences for Negative Concord (J van Kampen); The Moving Target Argument and the Speed of Evolution (B Winter); and other papers.