We’re climbing back into the linguistic time machine and taking a look at language in the long view. We’ll find out what language was like
- 100,000 years ago
- 1 million years ago
- 10 million years ago
and then jump into the future
- 100 years
- 1,000 years, and
- 10,000 years from now.
What will we find?
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Stone tools, language and the brain in human evolution
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223784/
On the Neurocognitive Co-Evolution of Tool Behavior and Language: Insights from the Massive Redeployment Framework
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12577
Homo sapiens and early human migration | Khan Academy
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[$$] Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people | The Economist
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/02/01/birds-are-just-as-fashion-conscious-as-people
Dinner Guests: How Wolves And Ravens Coexist At Kills
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/dinner-guests-how-wolves-and-ravens-coexist-at-kills/#
Linguistic Hypotheses on the Origins of Language
https://freelanguage.org/general-language-info/linguistic-hypotheses-on-the-origins-of-language
Heave Ho!
https://www.heavehogame.com
Researchers ‘Translate’ Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—a Lot
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-translate-bat-talk-and-they-argue-lot-180961564/
What bats have to say about speech and language
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325843/
Our Brains Treat Signed and Spoken Languages Alike
https://www.futurity.org/brains-sign-language-speech-1721212/
Fire control | CHIELD
https://correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/variable.html?key=389791574
Homo erectus may have been a sailor – and able to speak | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/20/homo-erectus-may-have-been-a-sailor-and-able-to-speak
Cooking | CHIELD
https://correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/variable.html?key=4234432752
Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?
https://www.ted.com/talks/suzana_herculano_houzel_what_is_so_special_about_the_human_brain?language=en
Brain size | CHIELD
https://correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/variable.html?key=170243050
Discover all about the kangaroo birthing cycle
https://www.blackpoolzoo.org.uk/blog/kangaroo-birthing-cycle
Nicholas Evans: Did language evolve in multilingual settings?
https://researchprofiles.anu.edu.au/en/publications/did-language-evolve-in-multilingual-settings
Primate Speciation: A Case Study of African Apes
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/primate-speciation-a-case-study-of-african-96682434/
Michael A. Arbib, How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nordic-journal-of-linguistics/article/abs/michael-a-arbib-how-the-brain-got-language-the-mirror-system-hypothesis-new-york-oxford-university-press-2012-pp-xvii-413/E424E4FB5BA8EBE12670417128A0B5B8
Bipedalism | CHIELD
https://correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/variable.html?key=2413943838
Vocal tract | CHIELD
https://correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/variable.html?key=1653868553
Little did we know about this grammatical rule | The Language Closet
https://thelanguagecloset.com/2022/05/07/v2-word-order/
The Race to Save the World’s Disappearing Languages
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/saving-dying-disappearing-languages-wikitongues-culture
Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age
https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. — Lily Tomlin
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lily_tomlin_100110
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