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evolutionary linguistics
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Evolutionary linguistics
Evolutionary linguistics
is the
scientific
study of the psychosocial development and
cultural evolution
of individual languages as well as the
origins and development of human language
itself. The main challenge in this research is the lack of empirical data: spoken
language
leaves practically no traces. This led to an abandonment of the field for more than a century. Since the late 1980s, the field has been revived in the wake of progress made in the related fields of
psycholinguistics
,
neurolinguistics
,
evolutionary anthropology
,
evolutionary psychology
,
universal grammar
,and
cognitive science
.
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