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Language is estimated to have originated around 2 million years ago when Homo sapiens first evolved. It is believed that either all languages are related through a common origin (monogenesis) or that language has arisen separately through evolution multiple times (polygenesis). Theories on the origin of language include that language was an innate instinct after Neanderthals or that it arose through oral tradition and communication between early humans.

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Language is estimated to have originated around 2 million years ago when Homo sapiens first evolved. It is believed that either all languages are related through a common origin (monogenesis) or that language has arisen separately through evolution multiple times (polygenesis). Theories on the origin of language include that language was an innate instinct after Neanderthals or that it arose through oral tradition and communication between early humans.

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Object and

linguistic Substances Form Color Polygenesis- language


Oral has arisen several
determinism- perception perception
Count nouns tradition- times.
completely refer to oldest direct
mass nouns
determined by objects evidence of Archeology
refer to
language language Monogenesis- all
substances
Problem solving and languages are
Memory- Linguistic labels related to each other
Sapir-Whorf help to retain information
hypothesis (or just Origin of Language-
Whorfianism)
*Homo sapiens
Historical The
Linguistic *Language is 2million
Language is the Neanderthals-
relativity- yrs.old Reconstruction-
main source for the use Their Language
Plausible ideas.
thought function did not reach
the stage of
Writing-Language development of
LANGUAGE
is much younger language
5 300 BP Language family-

Group of
languages with a
Communication- common origin.
exchange of
knowledge, opinions, Language is instinct- *90 languages all
feelings, etc. over the world
After the Neanderthals,
LINGUISTIC only human species
COMMUNICATION possess the language
NON-LINGUISTIC Speed Acquisition-
language acquired in
COMMUNICATION Noam Chomsky- in
Syntax- used short period
favor of innate
to express Resembling our smiling, laughing,
language Poverty of data- Language is
meanings. yelling, etc.
complex and difficult to find
evidences
Signs- which combines with
resembling
Double articulation our smiling,
formslaughing,
and meanings.
– formal signs are yelling, etc Language universals- all
built from small 10 and 100 sounds in languages are claimed from
repetoire language structural point of view

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