The Evolution of Language
Auteur : Andrew D. M. Smith
Date de publication : 2010
Éditeur : World Scientific
Nombre de pages : 532
Résumé du livre
This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG8), held in Utrecht on 1417 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.