Introduction.-Neurobiology: Language by, in, through and across the brain.- Dialogue.- Learning: Statistical mechanisms in language acquisition.- Evolution: Language use and the evolution of languages.- Transitions: The evolution of linguistic replicators.- Genes: Interactions with language on three levels.- Language in Nature: On the evolutionary roots of a cultural phenomenon.- Self-Organization: Complex dynamical systems in the evolution of speech.- Environment: Language ecology and language death.- Conclusions.
Philippe Binder is a Professor of
Physics at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and a Faculty
Fellow at the New England Complex Systems Institute. His areas of
interest are chaos and complex systems, including multiscale
analysis. He received his advanced training at Yale and Oxford.
Like millions of people worldwide, he is trilingual.
Kenny Smith is a Lecturer in the Language
Evolution and Computation Research Unit, School of Philosophy,
Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, with
interests in the evolution of communication, human language and the
human capacity for language. He uses a mix of modeling and
experimental techniques to address these questions.
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