Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 7, 1999, 1:28 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> I wonder what kind of language would evolve. My guess, if spoken:
> CV syllables (children prefer those)
> SVO or perhaps SOV
> Small vocabulary
> Many compounds
> Isolating?
This language would probably undergo the same processes
that occur during creolization: regularization of rules, increased
complexity in syntax, morphology and maybe phonology...
a general increase in complexity to normal linguistic levels.
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