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Jan 1, 2013 · Latin, and other Indo-European languages had all evolved ultimately from the same protolanguage. They thought that the Indians were too ‘ barbaric ’ to share genetic
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In asking about the origins of human language, we first have to make clear what the question is. The question is not how languages gradually developed over time into the languages of the world today. Rather, it is how the human species developed over time so that we — and not our closest relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos — became ...
Sep 1, 2017 · As languages evolved, the mentally constructed functions of subject and object developed and came to prevail over the sensory inspired agent and patient duo.
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Nov 17, 2011 · The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution presents critical accounts of every aspect of the field. 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 ...
The conclusion will be drawn that since the union of Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis 70-30 kya, creolization has been a common process for language progression and a main reason for present language variation.
Part III is about the prehistory of language, and in particular askes: When and why did language evolve? The text presents current interpretations of the selective events that may have led to the evolution of language.
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David McNeill challenges the popular “gesture-first” theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form, and proposes a ground-breaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how speech and gesture became unified.