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Origin of language, Manuel Leonardo Sanchez Ardila, image, image, image,…
Origin of language
The natural sound source
The “bow-wow” theory
The most famous and therefore the most ridiculed hypothesis) holds that vocabulary developed from imitations of animal noises
The “pooh-pooh” theory
Holds that the first words came from involuntary exclamations of dislike, hunger, pain, or pleasure, eventually leading to the expression of more developed ideas and emotions.
ding-dong" hypothesis
Language began when humans started naming objects, actions and phenomena after a recognizable sound associated with it in real life.
ta-ta" hypothesis.
Charles Darwin hypothesized, that speech may have developed as a sort of mouth pantomime: the organs of speech were used to imitate the gestures of the hand.
The genetic source
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• Human genetics, a crucial mutation – not a gradual change, but something that happened rather quickly;
• The investigation of language origin turns into a search for the special ‘language gene’ that only humans possess.
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The tool-making source
The tool-making source – physical adaptation process led to change of functions. Gestures – a precursor of language. Tool-making –evidence of a brain at work.
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