Paul Whitehouse

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Whitehouse is involved.

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Whitehouse, Paul 2008 Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, Bengtson, John D. (ed.), pp. 401–416 | Article
The need for languages to be complete systems suggests that language evolution will be episodic rather than gradual, with periods of stability punctuated by periods of innovation. The example of nicaraguan sign language suggests that such developmental phases can be very rapid. Rapid evolution can… read more
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