The Language Phenomenon

1. Introduction
K. Smith, P.-M. Binder

2. Neurobiology: Language By, In, Through and Across the Brain
Ralph-Axel Müller

3. Dialogue: Interactive Alignment and Its Implications for Language Learning and Language Change
Simon Garrod, Martin J. Pickering

4. Learning: Statistical Mechanisms in Language Acquisition
Elizabeth Wonnacott

5. Evolution: Language Use and the Evolution of Languages
William Croft

6. Transitions: The Evolution of Linguistic Replicators
Simon Kirby

7. Genes: Interactions with Language on Three Levels—Inter-Individual Variation, Historical Correlations and Genetic Biasing
Dan Dediu

8. Language in Nature: On the Evolutionary Roots of a Cultural Phenomenon
Willem Zuidema

9. Self-Organization: Complex Dynamical Systems in the Evolution of Speech
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

10. Environment: Language Ecology and Language Death
Suzanne Romaine

11. Conclusions
P.-M. Binder, K. Smith

Keywords: Physics, Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity, Theoretical Languages, Cognitive Psychology, Computing Methodologies, Information and Communication, Circuits, Evolutionary Biology