However, scholarly interest in the question of the origin of language has only gradually been rekindled from the 1950s on (and then controversially) with ideas such as universal grammar, mass comparison and glottochronology.
Međutim, naučni interes za pitanje porekla jezika je tek postepeno obnovljen počev od 50-tih godina XX veka (a i tada je bio kontroverzan) sa idejama univerzalne gramatike, masovne komparacije i glotohronologije.