Salikoko S. Mufwene

Research: Language evolution: the birth of new language varieties, the sustained vitality and spread of many, and the loss of many others

"Socio-cultural transmission" in language evolution?: Comment on "Rethinking [the] foundations of language from a multidisciplinary perspective" by Tao Gong, Lan Shuai, & Yicheng Wu.
"Socio-cultural transmission" in language evolution?: Comment on "Rethinking [the] foundations of language from a multidisciplinary perspective" by Tao Gong, Lan Shuai, & Yicheng Wu. Phys Life Rev. 2018 11; 26-27:155-157.
PMID: 30477686

Modeling the emergence of contact languages.
Modeling the emergence of contact languages. PLoS One. 2015; 10(4):e0120771.
PMID: 25875371

An ecological account of language evolution! Way to go! Commentary on "Modeling the cultural evolution of language" by Luc Steels.
An ecological account of language evolution! Way to go! Commentary on "Modeling the cultural evolution of language" by Luc Steels. Phys Life Rev. 2011 Dec; 8(4):367-8.
PMID: 22036701

Building social cognitive models of language change.
Building social cognitive models of language change. Trends Cogn Sci. 2009 Nov; 13(11):464-9.
PMID: 19815450

Parsing the evolution of language.
Parsing the evolution of language. Science. 2008 Apr 25; 320(5875):446; author reply 446.
PMID: 18436755