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The Cultural Evolution of Language

2022-01-10

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<p>Language is one of only a handful of human cultural systems that is both unique to our species, and universal. This chapter will focus on the cultural evolution of language, situating this alongside the phylogenetic and developmental timescales which also feed into the evolution of language. The chapter begins by outlining the relationship between the emergence of human language and the language faculty and the...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qxykg

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