Sentences with phrase «language prehistory»
But they believed they could work with the kinds of tools employed in evolutionary ecology to answer important questions about language prehistory.
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All of a sudden, there's an explosion of complex artifacts, symbolic representation, measurement of celestial events, complex social structures — a burst of creative activity that almost every expert on prehistory assumes must have been connected with the sudden emergence of language.
«The study of the Dravidian languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, as they played a significant role in influencing other language groups,» explains corresponding author Annemarie Verkerk of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Their model, presented recently in the journal Current Biology, gives researchers a renewed opportunity to trace words and languages back to their earliest common ancestor or ancestors - potentially thousands of years further into prehistory than previous techniques can do with any statistical rigor.
«Based on linguistic analysis including computational phylogenetics,» Sicoli writes, «we suggest the prehistory of South Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and the Pacific Northwest Coast involved intensive language contacts, including language shifts from now extinct languages that we can infer through typological features, grammar and vocabulary found in languages documented in historic periods.»
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