Symbol Grounding and Beyond: Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communications, EELC 2006, Rome, Italy,

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, EELC 2006, held in Rome, Italy, in September/October 2006.

The 12 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers focus on the evolution and emergence of language - a fast growing interdisciplinary research area touching such different disciplines as anthropology, linguistics, psychology, primatology, neuroscience, cognitive science and computer science. Some papers deal with language acquisition - both from a psychological and an AI point of view - gaining insights regarding language evolution.