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Revelationist: Language was gifted to humans by God, and it was thus God—and not humans—who named everything. 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.
Jul 24, 2017 · Human language is distinct from all other known animal forms of communication in being compositional. Human language allows speakers to express thoughts in sentences comprising subjects, verbs and objects—such as ‘I kicked the ball’—and recognizing past, present and future tenses.
- Mark Pagel
- m.pagel@reading.ac.uk
- 2017
Feb 3, 2016 · How humans evolved language, and who said what first. We are the only living ape with complex language, but why? What were the first words, and who spoke them? And did Neanderthals converse too?
- Mark Pagel
Oct 27, 2023 · These experts have various perspectives and theories for when humans started speaking and the reasons language evolved in the way that it did. There is much to learn from the laryngeal descent theory, to the arguments made for neurological and intelligence-based speech development.
Slowly at first, possibly beginning with simple sounds made by our ancestors Homo heidelbergenis, and then increasingly rapidly until there were thousands of languages spoken around the planet. But this has been fiercely debated and much is still not understood.
Jan 19, 2015 · While many other species have conceptual systems, humans are unique in having language. And the range and complexity of human conceptions appears to far exceed that of any other species.
Jun 24, 2015 · Unlike animal communication, our language allows us to combine and recombine subjects, objects, and verbs to make an endless variety of messages: “I kicked the computer.”
