Sentence examples for language emergence from inspiring English sources

Thus Kirby and his colleagues focus on something very different from the prerequisites for language emergence.

This scale is able to identify late language emergence, when using the scale as a whole but also at the single-item level [ 50].

Second language follows the same pattern of learning as the first language follows: preproduction (the learner only listens), early production (can use short language chunks), speech emergence (they try to initiate short conversation with friends), intermediate fluency and advanced fluency (the students are nearly-native in their ability) (Urlaub et al.2010).2010

"The fragmentation of languages" following "emergence" and "progress" makes it sound as though linguistic diversity is getting worse.

A number of philosophers have suggested recently that a genealogy can make an important contribution to our understanding of a phenomenon even when it is not literally true: Bernard Williams (2002) has suggested this about language and the emergence of truth-telling, following Edward Craig (1990)'s genealogical account of our possession of the concept of knowledge.

Dr Dunbar sees the 150-strong group size of Homo sapiens as both a consequence and a cause of verbal grooming, with large groups stimulating the emergence of language, and language then permitting the emergence of larger groups still.

Scotland has inherited two main features from the Roman period, although mostly indirectly: the use of the Latin script for its languages, and the emergence of Christianity as the predominant religion.

Understanding the emergence of language during evolution is a challenge, as fossil evidence does not provide much insight into oral language.

So the emergence of language must have preceded the emergence of religion.

Anthropologists and primatologists alike suggest that mutual grooming led to the emergence of language.

Scholars who promote these arguments often have a narrow view of language change, overlooking the emergence of new languages and the dramatic changes that habitually occur within existing languages.