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Binder, P.-M |
The Language Phenomenon |
I08332 |
2013 |
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Ollongren, Alexander |
Astrolinguistics |
I06316 |
2013 |
eBook |
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Ballesteros, Fernando J |
E.T. Talk |
I05579 |
2010 |
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| Title | The Language Phenomenon : Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia |
| Author(s) | Binder, P.-M;Smith, K |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. |
| Description | VIII, 251 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the relation between language and genes, the origins of language, self-organization, and language competition and death. The book as a whole will help to show how processes at different scales affect each other, thus presenting language as a dynamic, complex and profoundly human phenomenon |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642360862 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2. Cognitive psychology
3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
4. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Evolutionary Biology
8. Information and Communication, Circuits
9. INFORMATION THEORY
10. LINGUISTICS
11. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
12. Theoretical Linguistics
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| Title | Astrolinguistics : Design of a Linguistic System for Interstellar Communication Based on Logic |
| Author(s) | Ollongren, Alexander |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2013. |
| Description | XV, 248 p. 4 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In linguistics, one of the main areas of modern research involves the capabilities and possibilities of there being a "lingua cosmica," a LINCOS, a universal language that could be used to communicate with non-human intelligences. This book touches on the area of the development and use of a "lingua universalis" for interstellar communication, but it also presents concepts that cover a broad area of linguistics. Chomsky's paradigm on universal properties of natural languages, for a long time a leading general theory of natural languages, includes the strong assumption that humans are born with some kind of universals stored in their brains. Are there universals of this kind of language used by intelligent beings and societies elsewhere in the universe? We do not know whether such languages exist. It seems to be impossible to determine, simply because the universe is too large for an exhaustive search. Even verification will be hard to obtain, without quite a bit of luck. This book uses astrolinguistic principles in message construction and is helpful in clarifying and giving perspective to discussions on existential questions such as these |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461454687 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Language and languages???Philosophy
4. LINGUISTICS
5. PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
6. SPACE SCIENCES
7. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
8. Theoretical Linguistics
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| Title | E.T. Talk : How Will We Communicate with Intelligent Life on Other Worlds? |
| Author(s) | Ballesteros, Fernando J |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2010. |
| Description | XIX, 212 p. 82 illus., 15 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Although we have done extensive studies of the Solar System and thus far found over 300 extrasolar planets ??? planets outside our Solar System ??? we have not yet found life, even primitive life, on any planet other than Earth. Might there be life on some of these newly discovered extrasolar planets? Not likely, as most are gas giants or are too close or too far from their sun. However, of late we are finding more and more Earthlike planets. It is now estimated that about 15 percent of the planets in the galaxy are Earthlike, and many of these will likely orbit their suns at the right distance to support life as we know it. No one knows yet if radio searches or other means of detection will reveal that we are not alone in the universe. But if we do discover intelligent life elsewhere, how will we communicate with it? Are there some ???universal??? methods of communication we can use? Is music or mathematics a universal language? Are there alien intelligences right here on Earth we can use to help us figure out ways of communicating? The answers may surprise you. All of these issues and more are covered in this exciting, readable, and authoritative book on a subject that is not mere idle speculation anymore. We are certainly getting closer to finding out who, if anybody, is out there. This book will not only inform you about the search and the likelihood of finding life, it will also actually teach you how to talk to aliens! |
| ISBN,Price | 9781441960894 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
6. Astronomy???Observations
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. LINGUISTICS
10. Observations, Astronomical
11. Popular Science in Astronomy
12. Popular Science, general
13. Popular works
14. Theoretical Linguistics
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