Language evolution research in the year 2020: A survey of new directions

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Dynamics and Change Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI:10.1163/22105832-bja10005

Jonas Nölle, Stefan Hartmann, Peeter Tinits

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Abstract

This introductory paper reviews recent advances in language evolution research and summarizes the contributions of the special issue “New Directions in Language Evolution Research” in the broader context of these developments. Specifically, we discuss the increasing role of multimodality and iconicity, the more integrative view of language dynamics that has arguably broadened the scope of language evolution research, and recent methodological innovations that allow for a more fine-grained study of e.g. typological distributions or behavioral patterns that can give clues to some of the key questions discussed in the field.

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2020年的语言进化研究:新方向综述

这篇介绍性论文回顾了语言进化研究的最新进展，并总结了特刊“语言进化研究的新方向”在这些发展的更广泛背景下的贡献。具体来说，我们讨论了多模态和象似性的日益重要的作用，更综合的语言动力学观点，可以说扩大了语言进化研究的范围，以及最近的方法创新，允许更细粒度的研究，例如类型分布或行为模式，可以为该领域讨论的一些关键问题提供线索。

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Language Dynamics and Change LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Language Dynamics and Change (LDC) is an international peer-reviewed journal that covers both new and traditional aspects of the study of language change. Work on any language or language family is welcomed, as long as it bears on topics that are also of theoretical interest. A particular focus is on new developments in the field arising from the accumulation of extensive databases of dialect variation and typological distributions, spoken corpora, parallel texts, and comparative lexicons, which allow for the application of new types of quantitative approaches to diachronic linguistics. Moreover, the journal will serve as an outlet for increasingly important interdisciplinary work on such topics as the evolution of language, archaeology and linguistics (‘archaeolinguistics’), human genetic and linguistic prehistory, and the computational modeling of language dynamics.