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A gestural theory of the origin of language.
http://dbiref.uvt.nl:2080/~place/utplace/HAND98.htm
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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 (-7000 years).
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jef.dezafit/safi.htm
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TheTower of Babel
A project that aims at tracing the origin of the world's current 6,000 languages to a dozen or so
protolanguages spoken around the 12th - 9th millennia before Common Era.
http://www.jum.ru/finproj/protol.htm
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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.
http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~los/index.html
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Evolution of Communication
An international multidisciplinary academic journal. Contents and abstracts from first three
issues.
http://www.benjamins.com/jbp/index.html
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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.
http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Logan/Extended/Extended.html
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MacroEusian
A theory regarding relationships of the language groups.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6427/intro.html
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Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain
William Calvin and Derek Bickerton offer three ways for getting from ape behaviors to syntax. They
focus on the transition from simple word association in short sentences (protolanguage) to longer
recursively structured sentences (requiring syntax).
http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/LEM/
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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.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/1998/10/NOSTRAT.OSU.html
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Pre-Nostratic Pronouns
by Patrick C. Ryan, Mother Tongue 11, September 1990.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/PERSPRO1.htm
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Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language
The debate on Nostratic- the "Mother Tongue." The New York Times, June 27, 1995.
http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/articles.nostratic.html
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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.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/
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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?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2120glang.html
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