Sentence examples for aspects of language evolution from inspiring English sources

In this paper, we argue that the problem of the new quantitative methods is that they focus too much on the vertical aspects of language evolution, thereby forcing the data into tree-like structures.

They have emphasized that – given the important role that horizontal transmission plays in language history – such trees can only capture vertical aspects of language evolution, while horizontal aspects (which linguists traditionally model as "waves" that spread out in circles around a center in geographic space) are ignored.

The study may overturn a key theory of language evolution.

In this paper, we presented posterior probability distributions of language trees calculated under three different models of language evolution.

The parental antagonism theory of language evolution extends this hypothesis.

Sociolinguistics, the study of the sociological aspects of language.

Psycholinguistics, the study of psychological aspects of language.

"I really like the behavioral aspects of language," Bloomquist says.

This feature allows the preservation of regional aspects of language.

Different functional aspects of language are processed in each of the 3 partitions of these regions.

Still, these delays may be attributable to general cognitive impairments or strategic aspects of language processing.