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  1. Jan 1, 2013 · It also shows how some questions have been shaped by the manifold evolution of linguistics itself since the nineteenth century, including variation on what counts as language, and by...

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  2. 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
  3. Mar 25, 2020 · Contemporary historical linguistics has maintained a focus on several large-scale questions, such as the origins of the language faculty, the classification and typology of the world’s...

    • David Tavárez
  4. Jan 1, 2013 · The process of becoming even a bilingual necessitates a process to understand and learn the words of another language through the interpretations of one's own language. This evolved into the ...

  5. Nov 17, 2011 · The book’s five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and neurology); the prehistory of language (when and why did language evolve?); the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.

  6. Evolutionary linguistics has its origins in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, but fell out of favor due to a lack of empirical data and epistemological concerns. The resurgence of interest in trying to explain the origins of human language is due to a confluence of factors.

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  8. 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 ...

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