Sentence examples for Language evolution from inspiring English sources

Language evolution is vexing, they argued, because it relies on so many things that are not specific to language.

Language evolution can be compared to biological evolution, but whereas genetic change is driven by environmental pressures, languages change and develop through social pressures.

Mufwene, S. The Ecology of Language Evolution.

Mufwene, S. Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change.

A few swipes of a cloth, and many centuries of Northern European language evolution disappeared.

Mufwene, S. The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 2001).

A major issue in language evolution is control of its direction.

Special attention will be given to animal communication, vocalization, neurolinguistics, and theories of language evolution.

In M. Tallerman and K. Gibson (eds). Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution.

Everett, C., Blasi, D. E. & Roberts, S. G. Language evolution and climate: the case of desiccation and tone.

Students of animal communication justify their work by seeing it as adding to our knowledge of human language evolution.