PPT-Language Evolution and Linguistic Fossils:

How Humans Spoke at the Dawn of Language and Why our Grammars still Preserve Fossils of such Speech WSU Humanities Center 91713 Ljiljana Progovac progovacwayneedu Acknowledgements. Overview of Linguistic Tools. Dictionaries. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (. LIWC. ). Whissell’s Dictionary of Affective Language. WordNet. Parts of Speech Taggers (POS). Brown Corpus. Stanford POS. Organism DNA. 1a. Some of the strongest evidence for evolutionary relationships comes from studying the DNA of different organisms.. 1b. The fact that all organisms use the same DNA molecule to code for genetic information suggests that these organisms share a distant ancestor.. Evolution. Evolution. Evolution as an Idea…. Aristotle . Living things are . “Immutable”. Buffon (1707-1788). Observed anatomical features that seemed to serve no purpose and wondered why they existed.. to . Language Evolution: Contact, competition and change. Salikoko S. Mufwene. University of Chicago. Language Endangerment: From . The Ecology of Language Evolution. to date. … still an embarrassing subject matter for linguistics. How Humans Spoke at the Dawn of Language, and Why our Grammars still Preserve “Fossils” of such Speech. WSU Humanities Center, 9/17/13 . Ljiljana. . Progovac. progovac@wayne.edu. Acknowledgements. SBI3U1. Evidence. for . Evolution. The theory of evolution by natural selection was proven by the following methods: . Fossil . Record. Biogeography. Anatomy. Embryology. DNA. Fossils are found within the layers of sedimentary rock. . 1. Blood . proteins in horses are chemically similar to blood proteins in monkeys. This similarity suggests that horses and . monkeys:.   .  . . a. can interbreed  .  . b. evolved at the same time  . Fossils have helped determine approximately when life first appeared, when plants and animals arrived on land, and when organisms became extinct.. CONDITIONS NEEDED FOR FOSSIL FORMATION. Whether or not a dead organism becomes a fossil depends upon how well it is protected from scavengers and agents of physical destruction, such as waves and currents.. Evolution. A Swedish botanist in the 1700’s who developed a classification system for the organisms known at this time . Carolus Linnaeus. A group of organisms so similar to one another that they can reproduce and have fertile offspring. Evidence. Evidence. . of . common ancestry . among species comes from many sources.. . 2. FIVE PIECES OF EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION. G – Geographical . distribution . F – Fossil . evidence (remains of ancient organisms). Geologic Time and Evolution Earth Has a History Geologic materials record enormous changes. Earth is a complex, evolving system. Physical and biological systems continuously interact. Earth constantly changes and has done so through time. Chapters 14-18. Charles . Darwin. , DOB 1809, . On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. , . HMS Beagle –. 1831-36. Greeks – life arose in water and more complex followed simpler ones. typology. Linguistic typology.  (or . language typology. ) is a field of . linguistics.  that studies and classifies languages according to their structural and functional features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the world's languages.. BSc 4. th. Semester (Open Elective). Fundamentals . of Geology (BOE). OPEN ELECTIVE COURSE (OTHER THAN GEOLOGY MAIN STUDENTS. ). Dr Abdullah Khan. Associate . Professor . Department of Geology. AMU.