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- Chomsky's theory was revolutionary in that it challenged the prevailing belief that language development was solely influenced by environmental factors. He suggested that children are born with an innate understanding of grammar, which provides a framework for language acquisition.
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Revelationist-Conventionalist: God revealed to humans a core base of language – enabling humans to communicate with each other – and then humans invented the rest of language. Non-Committal : The view that conventionalist and revelationist theories are equally plausible.
- Observations on The Origins of Language
- Physical Adaptations
- From Words to Syntax
- The Gesture Theory of Language Origin
- Language as A Device For Bonding
- Otto Jespersen on Language as Play
- Divided Views on The Origins of Language
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"Divine origin[is the] conjecture that human language originated as a gift from God. No scholar takes this idea seriously today." (R.L. Trask, A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics, 1997; rpt. Routledge, 2014) "Numerous and varied explanations have been put forth to explain how humans acquired language—many of which date back to the ti...
- "Instead of looking at types of sounds as the source of human speech, we can look at the types of physical features humans possess, especially those that are distinct from other creatures, which may have been able to support speech production. . . . "Human teeth are upright, not slanting outwards like those of apes, and they are roughly even in h...
"Language-ready modern children learn vocabulary voraciously before they begin to make grammatical utterances several words long. So we presume that in the origins of language a one-word stage preceded our remote ancestors' first steps into grammar. The term 'protolanguage' has been widely used to describe this one-word stage, where there is vocabu...
- "Speculation about how languages originate and evolve has had an important place in the history of ideas, and it has been intimately linked to questions about the nature of the signed languages of the deaf and human gestural behavior in general. It can be argued, from a phylogenetic perspective, the origin of human sign languages is coincident wi...
"[T]he size of human social groups gives rise to a serious problem: grooming is the mechanism that is used to bond social groups among primates, but human groups are so large that it would be impossible to invest enough time in grooming to bond groups of this size effectively. The alternative suggestion, then, is that language evolved as a device f...
- "[P]rimitive speakers were not reticent and reserved beings, but youthful men and women babbling merrily on, without being so particular about the meaning of each word. . . . They chattered away for the mere pleasure of chattering . . .. [P]rimitive speech . . . resembles the speech of little baby himself, before he begins to frame his own langua...
"Today, opinion on the matter of language origins is still deeply divided. On the one hand, there are those who feel that language is so complex, and so deeply ingrained in the human condition, that it must have evolved slowly over immense periods of time. Indeed, some believe that its roots go all the way back to Homo habilis, a tiny-brained homin...
Cognitive Linguistics and Neurolinguistics- Richard Nordquist
- Richard Nordquist
- The Bow-Wow Theory. According to this theory, language began when our ancestors started imitating the natural sounds around them. The first speech was onomatopoeic—marked by echoic words such as moo, meow, splash, cuckoo, and bang.
- The Ding-Dong Theory. This theory, favored by Plato and Pythagoras, maintains that speech arose in response to the essential qualities of objects in the environment.
- The La-La Theory. The Danish linguist Otto Jespersen suggested that language may have developed from sounds associated with love, play, and (especially) song.
- The Pooh-Pooh Theory. This theory holds that speech began with interjections—spontaneous cries of pain ("Ouch!") , surprise ("Oh!") , and other emotions ("Yabba dabba do!").
Some of Chomsky’s most impactful research from his early career (late 50s and early 60s) was the invention of formal language theory, a branch of mathematics dealing
May 2, 2018 · Theories of language origin and evolution have been deeply influenced by this interdisciplinary discussion, making the notion of “action” a very important attractor in the theory space concerning how language emerged and evolved.
- Francesco Ferretti, Ines Adornetti, Alessandra Chiera, Erica Cosentino, Serena Nicchiarelli
- 2018
May 10, 2019 · Max Müller, a philologist and linguist, published a list of these theories in the mid-19th century: Bow-wow. Ding-Dong. Pooh-pooh. Yo-he-ho. Bow-wow was the theory that, much like the lyrebird, humans started out mimicking the noises and animal calls around them. From these noises, words developed.
Sep 26, 2013 · Some assume that language is a culturally evolved system of symbolic communication (Washburn; Dawkins; Byrne and Whiten; Donald; Deacon; Li and Hombert; Zuberbühler and Byrne; Dessalles; Kirby, Christiansen, and Chater).
