期刊
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
卷 24, 期 1, 页码 151-157出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-016-1072-z
关键词
Languages; Evolution; Darwin; Phylogeny
资金
- European Research Council [268744]
- European Research Council (ERC) [268744] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Human languages evolve by a process of descent with modification in which parent languages give rise to daughter languages over time and in a manner that mimics the evolution of biological species. Descent with modification is just one of many parallels between biological and linguistic evolution that, taken together, offer up a Darwinian perspective on how languages evolve. Combined with statistical methods borrowed from evolutionary biology, this Darwinian perspective has brought new opportunities to the study of the evolution of human languages. These include the statistical inference of phylogenetic trees of languages, the study of how linguistic traits evolve over thousands of years of language change, the reconstruction of ancestral or proto-languages, and using language change to date historical events.
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