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Review of evolutionary linguistics in the past two decades and EVOLANG10: The 10the International Conference on Language Evolution
评论：演化语言学在过去二十年之发展及第十届演化语言国际会议纪要
Tao Gong 龚涛; Lam Yau Wai 林攸蔚; Chen Xinying 陈芯莹; Zhang Menghan 张梦翰
Abstract 摘要
In this paper, by briefly reviewing the keynote speeches and pre-conference workshops of Evolang10, we revisited the flourishing development of evolutionary linguistics in the past two decades, and gave three comments on Evolang conference series, including: (a) reconsideration of the repulsive attitude toward historical linguistics research; (b) future directions of modeling and experimental studies; and (c) necessity of pragmatics and neuroscience explorations in evolutionary linguistics. In the end, we summarized the key contributions from Chinese scholars to evolutionary linguistics, rich linguistic resources in China, possible facets where Chinese scholars can make significant contributions, and current status of evolutionary linguistics research in China. We welcome and encourage more Chinese scholars to step into evolutionary linguistics and make our contributions to this booming field.
本文通过综述第十届演化语言学国际会议的主题演讲和会前工作坊，总结了演化语言学在过去二十年间的蓬勃发展，并对此系列会议提出了三点建议，包括：1，反思对历史语言学研究的拒绝态度；2，未来模拟仿真研究向何处去；3，加入更多语用学和脑科学对语言演化研究的贡献。本文最后回顾中国学者对演化语言学的贡献，概述此项研究在中国学术界的发展现状，并指出中国丰富的语言演化研究资源和中国学者能够对此项研究做出贡献的方向。作者殷切希望更多中国学者能够加入此领域研究，并做出重要贡献。
Subject Keywords 主题词
Evolutionary linguistics 演化语言学 Modeling 模拟仿真 Pragmatics 语用学 Neuroscience 脑科学