How languages have emerged and changed through human history is a subject of ongoing fascination. Language is, after all, the greatest of all social tools: It's what lets people share and ...

Lantz’s diagram is also fascinating in that it beautifully illustrates how cultural injections influence the evolution of language. For English, this ranged from the Viking and Norman invasions ...

Biological evolution and language evolution share many striking parallels. This Review explains how these similarities enable the use of statistical methods derived from phylogenetics to ...

Tracing the evolution of English verbs over 1,200 years ... Evolution of the language: When verbs meet Darwin. By Denise Gellene , Los Angeles Times Oct 11, 2007.

The languages cluster around certain common features, but the words are all strikingly similar, especially when you consider the words for two in languages outside the Indo-European family: iki ...

Child first language and adult second language are both tied to general-purpose learning systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2018; 201713975 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713975115 ...

RESEARCH on the evolution of language suggests that our communication is largely about cooperation. When we speak with each other, the idea goes, we do so to help coordinate our actions. Antelope ...