´´THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE´´ BY DR. C. GEORGE BOEREE.

´´THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE´´ BY DR. C. GEORGE BOEREE.

1. HOW DID WE GET FROM ANIMAL VOCALIZATION TO HUMAN LANGUAGE?

   • It is an important and intriguing question to which we may not get an answer.
     • COMMUNICATION HUMAN TO HUMAN AND ANIMAL TO ANIMAL
       • COMMUNICATION HUMAN TO HUMAN
         • There are differences
           • Human can use symbols and develop and use a language
             • SYMBOLS
               • Language are composed of symbols
               • Symbols are conventional and arbitrary
                 • E. G.
                   • Dog, Chien, Perro.
             • LANGUAGE
               • Language is a system of symbols with several levels of organization.
                 • Levels
                   • Phonetic level
                   • Grammatical level
                   • Semantic level
           • Animal may often use sings.
             • SINGS
               • Signs point to what they represent.
                 • E. G.
                   • A sniff to represent a cold, a cloud a storm or scent as sign of territory.
       • COMMUNICATION ANIMAL TO ANIMAL

2. THE TIMES LANGUAGE WAS INVENTED.

   • Language could be originated by monogenesis or polygenesis.
     • MONOGENESIS
       • Language was invented once by our ancestors.
     • POLYGENESIS
       • Language was invented many times by different groups of people.

3. THEORIES ABOUT HOW THE LANGUAGE ORIGINATED

   • THE MAMA THEORY
   • THE YO-HE-HO THEORY
   • THE TA-TA THEORY
   • THE EUREKA THEORY
   • THE SING-SONG THEORY
   • THE DIN-DONG THEORY
   • THE BOW-WOW THEORY
   • THE HEY-YOU THEORY
   • THE POOH-POOH THEORY
   • THE HOCUS-POCUS THEORY

4. WATER AND MUSICAL BABIES

   • Water babies
     • Hardy-Morgan Theory is theory formulated by marine biologist, Alister Hardy and Elaine Morgan, a Welsh Writer and Journalist. This theory states that human ancestors could spend some time living in water since, human don´t share characteristic with primates which are consider relatives to them and share characteristics with other water mammals such as having a layer of fat under skin, not having hair in the major part of the body and being able to hold breath. According to author this theory may help
   • Musical babies
     • It is explained that some scientist believe that language in humans is taught to other humans and is something not natural and instinctive as some scientist such as Noam Chomsky and Steve Spinker sustain. Much emphasis is given in that Darwin sustained language is not instinctive. And the explanation of Mario Vaneechoutte and his students is described and explained. It is said that music unlike language is instinctive, like it can be seen in animals, and that because of the behave of emitting musical sound humans could have developed language. It its also mentioned emitting musical sounds is something done by mothers and their babies, it is something we do since we are born and that we react to music even before. Something important is that the characteristic of having a larynx lower in throat, which it is mentioned in the Hardy-Morgan Theory could have been obtained by humans for having aquatic ancestors, is mentioned as important for having been able to emit musical sounds and been

5. Reflection of the document about the study of origin of language. ´´We can try to reconstruct earlier forms of language, but we can only go so far before cycles of change obliterate any possibility of reconstruction. Many say we can only go back perhaps 10,000 years before the trail goes cold. So perhaps we will simply never know´´

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