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The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6), rome, Italy, 12-15 April 2006
 
 
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The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6), rome, Italy, 12-15 April 2006 [Hardcover]

Angelo Cangelosi (Editor), Andrew D. M. Smith (Editor), Kenny Smith (Editor)

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9812566562 978-9812566560 March 2, 2006
This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG6). The biennial EVOLANG conference focuses on the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, computer science, ethology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology, and psychology. The collection presents the latest theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution, and includes contributions from the leading scientists in the field, including T Fitch, V Gallese, S Mithen, D Parisi, A Piazza & L Cavali Sforza, R Seyfarth & D Cheney, L Steels, L Talmy and M Tomasello.

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naming game, evolutionary computation, pose cell representation, artificial language evolution, holistic protolanguage, iterated learning model, holistic utterances, global syntax, early human language, hypothetical grammars, property denoting expressions, learning bottleneck, local syntax, sender strategies, compositional language, descended larynx, naming insight, association operator, evolved agents, nested recursion, integrated meanings, complex imitation, recursive syntax, declarative pointing, colour categories
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Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, New York, Artificial Life, Harvard University Press, University of Edinburgh, University of Chicago Press, George Square, Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Princeton University Press, Animal Behaviour, Evolution of Communication, Maynard Smith, Hong Kong, Polyadic Association Operator, Connection Science, Proc Nat Acad Sci, Journal of Human Evolution, Hum Evo, Journal of Theoretical Biology, School of Psychology, Child Development, British Isles, Lund University
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