Keyword

protolanguage

Description: A protolanguage is a hypothesized ancestral language from which a family of related languages developed, studied in historical linguistics.

Primary topic: Language and cultural evolution (43%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q206577

OpenAlex ID: keywords/protolanguage

Before speech: The beginning of interpersonal communication. Ed. by Margaret Bullowa. Cambridge: University Press, 1979. Pp. viii, 400. Cloth $36.00, paper $9.95.

1981 · Sue Foster · Language · 929

The singing Neanderthals: The origins of music, language, mind, and body

2006 · Steven Mithen · 887

The Basic Variety (or: Couldn't natural languages be much simpler?)

1997 · Wolfgang Klein, Clive Perdue · Second language Research · 833

Language and human behavior

1996 · Bickerton, Derek · Choice Reviews Online · 555

Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity

1999 · Ray Jackendoff, Ray Jackendoff · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 537

Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity

2001 · S. Kirby · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 530

A developmental model for the evolution of language and intelligence in early hominids

1979 · Sue Taylor Parker, Kathleen Rita Gibson · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 498

The evolution of language

1999 · Martin A. Nowak, David C. Krakauer · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 482

Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese?

2004 · Dean Falk · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 480

Approaches to the evolution of language: social and cognitive bases

1999 · Choice Reviews Online · 462

Primate Vocalization, Gesture, and the Evolution of Human Language

2008 · Michael A. Arbib, Katja Liebal, et al. · Current Anthropology · 347

Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History

1993 · Derek Nurse, Thomas J. Hinnebusch, et al. · Americanae (AECID Library) · 331

Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction

1998 · Alison Wray · Language & Communication · 298

Did our ancestors speak a holistic protolanguage?

2005 · Maggie Tallerman · Lingua · 248

Holistic Utterances in Protolanguage: The Link from Primates to Humans

2000 · Alison Wray · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 205

Introduction to historical linguistics

1971 · Anthony Arlotto · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 192

Infrastructure for Engineered Emergence on Sensor/Actuator Networks

2006 · J. Beal, J. Bachrach · IEEE Intelligent Systems · 186

The Mind in Nature

2008 · C. B. Martin · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 172

The Language of Early Childhood

2004 · M. A. K. Halliday · Continuum eBooks · 159

Darwinian perspectives on the evolution of human languages

2016 · Mark Pagel · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 155

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Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics

2011 · Ray Jackendoff · Oxford University Press eBooks · 147

From Mirror Neurons to Complex Imitation in the Evolution of Language and Tool Use

2010 · Michael A. Arbib · Annual Review of Anthropology · 144

Synesthesia, Cross-Modality, and Language Evolution

2013 · Christine Cuskley, Simon Kirby · Oxford University Press eBooks · 138

Automated reconstruction of ancient languages using probabilistic models of sound change

2013 · Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, David Hall, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 133

The Evolution of Music in Comparative Perspective

2005 · W. TECUMSEH FITCH · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 130

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Citation count: 14,960