Talk:Linguistics/Evolutionary Linguistics

A nice start. Check out wikipedia for more though, maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_Behavior_%28book%29

Biased and outdated?
In my view, this page contains a very biased/eccentric viewpoint, based on several dubious and unsupported statements.

- BF Skinner's view of language acquisition is not accepted by any contemporary linguists of note - it is not in any way a valid contemporary theory. - The idea that a model of language acquisition can be based on treatments used with non-verbal autistic individuals is totally unreasonable. - The assertion that language is 'too young to have been a product of evolution' shows a dmisunderstanding of both language and evolution. Evolutionary changes can work extremely fast; in any case, key genes relating to language have been discovered in neaderthal DNA, showing that it is an ancient ability dating back to a period of major species change and quite possibly earlier. - The page is also very simplistic and contains no detailed explanation. Lord Spring Onion (talk) 23:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC)