Did language evolve in multilingual settings?
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Accounts of language evolution have largely suffered from a monolingual bias, assuming that language evolved in a single isolated community sharing most speech conventions. Rather, evidence from the small-scale societies who form the best simulacra available for ancestral human communities suggests that the combination of small societal scale and out-marriage pushed ancestral human communities to make use of multiple linguistic systems. Evolutionary innovations would have occurred in a number...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2018-02-20 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/227220 |
Source: | Biology & Philosophy |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10539-018-9609-3 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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