Keyword

language evolution

Description: The study of how language emerged and changed over time through biological, cultural, and cognitive processes.

Primary topic: Language and cultural evolution (34%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q74064234

OpenAlex ID: keywords/language-evolution

The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?

2002 · Marc D. Hauser, Noam Chomsky, et al. · Science · 5,187

Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions

1996 · Giacomo Rizzolatti, Luciano Fadiga, et al. · Cognitive Brain Research · 4,869

Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories

1984 · Ruth Garrett Millikan · The MIT Press eBooks · 4,756

A Generative Theory of Tonal Music

1984 · Peter Child, Fred Lerdahl, et al. · Computer Music Journal · 3,751

Language, Usage and Cognition

2010 · Joan Bybee · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 3,485

Origins of Human Communication

2008 · Michael Tomasello · The MIT Press eBooks · 3,284

Language within our grasp

1998 · Giacomo Rizzolatti, Michael A. Arbib · Trends in Neurosciences · 2,858

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Principles of Linguistic Change

2010 · William Labov · Wiley eBooks · 2,644

Natural language and natural selection

1990 · Steven Pinker, Paul Bloom · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2,472

The Ecology of Language Evolution

2001 · Salikoko S. Mufwene · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2,437

The symbolic species: the co-evolution of language and the brain

1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 2,434

Origins of human communication

2009 · Choice Reviews Online · 2,230

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language

1996 · R. I. M. Dunbar · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences · 2,213

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

1994 · Nolan Miller, Gerda Oldham, et al. · The Antioch Review · 2,015

A Natural History of Human Thinking

2014 · Michael Tomasello · Harvard University Press eBooks · 1,922

Explaining Language Change an evolutionary approach

2000 · William Croft · 1,888

Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

2002 · Ray Jackendoff · 1,837

Perisylvian language networks of the human brain

2004 · Marco Catani, Derek K. Jones, et al. · Annals of Neurology · 1,832

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Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing

2009 · Josef P Rauschecker, Sophie K Scott · Nature Neuroscience · 1,765

Postcolonial English

2007 · Edgar W. Schneider · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,764

On Understanding Grammar

2017 · T. Givón · John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks · 1,753

Evolutionary dynamics: exploring the equations of life

2007 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,486

The faculty of language: what's special about it?

2005 · Steven Pinker, Ray Jackendoff · Cognition · 1,425

The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain

1998 · J. Marshall Unger, Terrence W. Deacon · Modern Language Journal · 1,299

The Origin of Speech

1960 · Charles F. Hockett · Scientific American · 1,286

Works count: 21,960

Citation count: 398,000