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英国瑞汀大学生命科学院的Mark Pagel教授最近使用统计工具,对世界主要语言系统——印欧语系(Indo-European)、南岛语系(Austronesian)、班图语(Bantu)进行了分析,他推断说:语言是通过跳跃性的方式进行着演化,而非缓慢演化。这项发现挑战了许多语言学家主张的缓慢稳定
Professor Mark Pagel of the Life Sciences Academy at Reading University recently used statistical tools to analyze Indo-European, Austronesian and Bantu, the world's major linguistic systems. He concluded Says: Languages are evolving in a leapfrog fashion rather than slowly evolving. This finding challenges the slow and steady that many linguists advocate