The Language Mosaic and its Evolution
The Language Mosaic and its Evolution
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语言马赛克及其演变
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199244843.003.0003
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发表时间：
2003
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J. Hurford
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J. Hurford
从进化论的角度来理解人类的语言能力和各种语言的结构是最好的。生物学上通向语言准备的步骤包括对现代音标、句法、语义和语用的预适应。一旦人类准备好了语言，任何一种或复杂的语言系统都可以通过一代又一代的文化传播相对快速地发展起来。
The human capacity for language and the structures of individual languages can best be understood from an evolutionary perspective. Biolog ical steps toward languagereadiness involved preadaptations for modern phonet ics, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Once humans were language-ready, ever m or complex language systems could grow, relatively fast, by cultural transmissi on, generation after generation.