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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.
Teach your students how the languages of the world have evolved over time, and how their own languages continue to evolve today with this curated collection of resources.
But this has been fiercely debated and much is still not understood. Some experts think there was one original ‘Proto-Human’ language from which all others evolved. This might have been spoken by Mitochondrial Eve about 150,000 years ago, before our ancestors left Africa.
Mar 21, 2012 · Neanderthals, who evolved some 230,000 years ago, had the neural connections to the tongue, diaphragm and chest muscles necessary to articulate intricate sounds and control breathing for speech.
Feb 3, 2016 · To those of us who study human evolution, this incredible universality suggests that our species has had language right from when Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200,000 and...
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Apr 2, 2015 · Peter Dizikes. At some point, probably 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, humans began talking to one another in a uniquely complex form. It is easy to imagine this epochal change as cavemen grunting, or hunter-gatherers mumbling and pointing. But in a new paper, an MIT linguist contends that human language likely developed quite rapidly into a ...
