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When we see a human being who is talking or is listening to and understanding the language produced by someone else, we may ask: What is the origin and past history of this ability? How has this ability taken its present form? Asking and answering questions about the origin and past history of biological, behavioral, and cultural phenomena is a crucial step to an understanding of these phenomena. Biological, behavioral, and cultural phenomena have an intrinsically historical nature. Their current properties are the result of their past history and they retain in themselves the traces of this past history. Language is at the same time a biological, a behavioral, and a cultural phenomenon. Therefore, to understand what language is now requires that we reconstruct how it is has become what it is now.
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Parisi, D., Cangelosi, A. (2002). A Unified Simulation Scenario for Language Development, Evolution and Historical Change. In: Cangelosi, A., Parisi, D. (eds) Simulating the Evolution of Language. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0663-0_12
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