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

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.