'Critical' Age

[Aaron E. Drews]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Bob Fitzke wrote:

}Reading thus stimulated a question, "Has anyone ever analyzed the evolution of
}language from the perspective of evolutionary theory?"

I'm not sure about the Lg&Evol group here.  Check out their website from
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk  (no, this isn't a plug).   I know there's a lot
of computational stuff, but I'm sure *someone* has alluded to Darwin.

--Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

"MERE ACCUMULATION OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PROOF"
        --Death