Guest Lecturer Juan Uriagereka from the UMD talked to us about various pieces of evidence for when humans developed higher level cognitive abilities relating to language. Slides are here.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Evolutionary Linguistics, Syntax, and Knot Tying (AS, 12/10)
Language Change (Isaac Eaton, 12/7)
Isaac Eaton gave a lecture about the many (pretty hilarious) ways languages change over time, including phonetic, phonological, and semantic changes.