Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Neurobiology: Language By, In, Through and Across the Brain

Chapter 3 Dialogue: Interactive Alignment and Its Implications for Language Learning and Language Change

Chapter 4 Learning: Statistical Mechanisms in Language Acquisition

Chapter 5 Evolution: Language Use and the Evolution of Languages

Chapter 6 Transitions: The Evolution of Linguistic Replicators

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

Chapter 8 Language in Nature: On the Evolutionary Roots of a Cultural Phenomenon

Chapter 9 Self-Organization: Complex Dynamical Systems in the Evolution of Speech

Chapter 10 Environment: Language Ecology and Language Death