Evolution of Communication
An international multidisciplinary academic journal. Contents and abstracts from first three issues. |
Language Origins Society
Its aim is to promote the study of the origins and evolution of language, including the phylogeny of the cerebral correlates, the adaptation of the vocal tract, and the development of linguistic features. |
Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language
The debate on Nostratic- the "Mother Tongue." The New York Times, June 27, 1995. |
MacroEusian
A theory regarding relationships of the language groups. |
NOVA Online-Transcripts-In Search of the First Language
There are surprising similarities among the languages of the world. Could it be that at one time long ago, we all spoke the same language? |
On the Creation of the Form of Language
Lecture by Harry van der Hulst on the issue of the evolutionary origin and development of human language. |
Pre-Nostratic Pronouns
by Patrick C. Ryan, Mother Tongue 11, September 1990. |
Proto-Language
An investigation of the earliest language of man. Comparative studies of the Proto-Language and various language families and languages currently considered to be isolated. |
SAFi etymology. Indo-European, Nostratic or Eurasian ?
SAFi is a lexeme of several groups of languages such as Indo-European, Semito-chamitic, ouralo-altaic and niger-kordofanian. Its distribution consolidates historical linguistic theories of Nostratic or Eurasian roots previous to the Indo-European one |
The Extended Mind: Understanding Language and Thought in Terms of Complexity and Chaos Theory
Robert K. Logan, Professor of Physics, argues that the origins of speech and the human mind emerged simultaneously as the bifurcation from percepts to concepts. |
The Role of the Hand in the Evolution of Language
A gestural theory of the origin of language. |
Was Nostratic A Real Language?
On the family tree of languages, no one is quite sure whether Nostratic is a real branch or a just a shadow that has fooled some linguistic researchers. |
