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Sep 1, 2017 · Today, in mainstream linguistics, language evolution no longer denotes the course of linguistic features morphing into alternatives with greater selective advantages, but the nebulous set of phylogenetic events that made us loquens.
- Bernard H. Bichakjian
- 2017
The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques.
This article focuses on the evolution of language over the years. The evidence for primate and human evolution has derived primarily from comparative anatomy and fossil records, although since the 1960s, molecular and biochemical evidences have increasingly been used to delineate phylogenetic relationships among living species and diverse human ...
The earliest historical linguistic evidence of the spoken Chinese language dates back approximately 4500 years, [1] while examples of the writing system that would become written Chinese are attested in a body of inscriptions made on bronze vessels and oracle bones during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 – 1050 BCE), [2] [3] with the very ...
This paper compares the Chinese and English languages, trying to clear the argument that the two are from different worlds. To explain this claim, we collected data from both the speaking and writing perspective, providing links between these languages.
Mar 1, 2013 · From a phylogenetic perspective, did language emerge abruptly or gradually? If the emergence of language was protracted, what plausible intermediate stages can be posited and what would count as evidence for positing them?
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Feb 23, 2023 · We begin this brief overview by situating the cultural evolution of language alongside two other crucial factors in language evolution: language development and biological evolution. We then sketch out the broad evidence for how the cultural evolution of language works in terms of different sources of evidence, from natural language, agent ...
