Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Languages, like genes, evolve by a process of descent with modification. This striking similarity between biological and linguistic evolution allows us to apply phylogenetic methods to explore how ...

Lecturer in Linguistics and Language Education, Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana If there is one most distinguishing feature that makes us human, it would be our ability to enunciate words, aka ...

For more than 150 years ago, the assumption that language is a singular event has hampered progress in explaining its evolution. Another obstacle was the failure to recognize that certain social ...