Did language evolve in multilingual settings?
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Accounts of language evolution have largely suffered from a monolingual bias, assuming that language evolved in a single isolated community sharing most speech conventions. Rather, evidence from the small-scale societies who form the best simulacra available for ancestral human communities suggests that the combination of small societal scale and out-marriage pushed ancestral human communities to make use of multiple linguistic systems. Evolutionary innovations would have occurred in a number...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Evans, Nicholas | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-17T00:12:01Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8404 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/227220 | |
dc.description.abstract | Accounts of language evolution have largely suffered from a monolingual bias, assuming that language evolved in a single isolated community sharing most speech conventions. Rather, evidence from the small-scale societies who form the best simulacra available for ancestral human communities suggests that the combination of small societal scale and out-marriage pushed ancestral human communities to make use of multiple linguistic systems. Evolutionary innovations would have occurred in a number of separate communities, distributing the labor of structural invention between populations, and would then have been pooled gradually through multilingually mediated horizontal transfer to produce the technological package we now regard as a natural ensemble. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Funding was provided by Australian Research Council (Grant No. FL130100111), Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (Grant No. CE140100041) and Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis). | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | Springer Netherlands | |
dc.rights | © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature | |
dc.source | Biology & Philosophy | |
dc.subject | Language evolution | |
dc.subject | Multilingualism | |
dc.subject | Hunter-gatherer | |
dc.subject | Gradualist | |
dc.subject | Coevolutionary approaches | |
dc.subject | Distributed innovation | |
dc.title | Did language evolve in multilingual settings? | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 32 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-02-08 | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-02-20 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 200406 - Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | |
local.identifier.absfor | 220312 - Philosophy of Cognition | |
local.identifier.absfor | 060399 - Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u5721749xPUB81 | |
local.publisher.url | https://link.springer.com/ | |
local.type.status | Accepted Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Evans, Nicholas, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL130100111 | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE140100041 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 905 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 933 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10539-018-9609-3 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 950503 - Understanding Australia's Past | |
local.identifier.absseo | 950202 - Languages and Literacy | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-11-23T11:38:25Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-85042237104 | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
dc.provenance | https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/28053..."Author accepted manuscript can be made open access on insitutional repository after 12 month embargo" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 18.3.21). | |
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