Bichakjian (2000): "... languages have been steadily replacing the ancestral implements with ever more advantageous altenatives (linguistically more powerful and biologically less costly)"

Bichakjian hizkuntalariak zioen an bere "Reply to Suddendorf on Bichakjian on Language-Complexity" (2000):

My target article, which showed that, ... languages have been steadily replacing the ancestral implements with ever more advantageous altenatives (linguistically more powerful and biologically less costly), provided data that clearly suggest there is no empirical support for the steady state conception, and that language evolution is a gradual process with roots going very far back in time. Indeed, just as industry started with primitive tools and weapons and steadily evolved into the sophisticated hardware available to us to day, so language began with an improvised set of features which consistently remodelled into ever more efficient instruments of thought and communication.[Bichakjian, 2000]

eta reférituz ki kontrastea arten sintaxi buruazkena eta sintaxi burulehena (zeini deitzen dión "the modern word order"), egiten ditú ondoko reflexioak (an bere artikulua titulatzén "Language evolution and the complexity criterion", 1999):

The modern word order has therefore a double advantage: in the first place, it allows for the coding and decoding of linguistic messages with a minimum of mental effort, since it taxes the working memory of speakers and listeners as little as possible; and, in the second place, because the processing of linguistic messages is facilitated, it makes it possible to conceive and express increasingly more complex thoughts. [Bichakjian, 1999]

Gauza da ze prozesu gradual horretan munduko mintzaira guztiak ez dutela iritsi ber estadioa simultaneoki (nola nahiago genuken), halan-ze gaur egun, suerte txarrez, existitzen dirá diferentzia ondo nabarmenak arten erraztasun komunikatiboak zein sintaxi ezberdinek eskaintzen dituzten. Eta soluzioa soilik datorke ti jarraitú bidea an norabide egokia artio iritsí estadio sintaktiko bat non diferentziak ez diren jada esanguratsuak (behar dirá aukera burulehen funtzionalak). Bichakjian-ek dioenez (ikus goragoko aipua):

Indeed, just as industry started with primitive tools and weapons and steadily evolved into the sophisticated hardware available to us to day, so ... [Bichakjian, 2000]

Edonola ere, esan behar da ze, teknologia linguistikoak bádu konponente ezberdin oso inportante bat respektu beste teknologia edo erreminta batzuk: konponente soziala, halan-ze bere evoluzioa ez da hain erraza, nahiz, nire ikuspegitik, ez den hain zaila ere, eta dudagabe, eman daitezke aurrerapusu oso errazak, emánez bide ki beste aurrerapusu batzuk ... (gradualki, asmoz eta jakitez). [⇶]