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Mind Map by Alison Marin, updated more than 1 year ago
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The Origins of Language
- The Mama
Theory
- Language began with the easiest syllables
attached to the most significant objects.
- Language began with the easiest syllables
attached to the most significant objects.
- The Ta-Ta
Theory
- The body movement
preceded language
- Evolved into the popular idea
that language may have
derived from gestures
- The body movement
preceded language
- The Ding- Dong
Theory
- Relationship between sounds and
meaning
- Favored by Plato and Pythagoras, maintains that
speech arose in response to the essential
qualities of objects in the environment
- Relationship between sounds and
meaning
- The Bow-Wow Theory
- Language began as imitations
of natural sounds
- This is more technically
referred to as
onomatopoeia or echoism
- Language began as imitations
of natural sounds
- The Pooh-Pooh Theory
- This theory holds that speech
began with interjections
- spontaneous cries of pain, surprise,
and other emotions
- spontaneous cries of pain, surprise,
and other emotions
- This theory holds that speech
began with interjections
- The Yo-He-Ho Theory
- Language evolved from the grunts, groans, and
snorts evoked by heavy physical labor
- A. S. Diamond suggests that these were
perhaps calls for assistance or cooperation
accompanied by appropriate gestures
- A. S. Diamond suggests that these were
perhaps calls for assistance or cooperation
accompanied by appropriate gestures
- Language evolved from the grunts, groans, and
snorts evoked by heavy physical labor
- The Sing-Song Theory
- Danish linguist Jesperson suggested
that language comes out of play,
laughter, cooing, courtship, emotional
mutterings and the like
- He suggests that some of our
first words were actually long and
musical, rather than the short
grunts many assume we started
with.
- He suggests that some of our
first words were actually long and
musical, rather than the short
grunts many assume we started
with.
- Danish linguist Jesperson suggested
that language comes out of play,
laughter, cooing, courtship, emotional
mutterings and the like
- The Hey You! Theory.
- The linguist Revesz suggested that we have always
needed interpersonal contact, and that language
began as sounds to signal both identity and belonging.
- This is commonly called the contact theory
- The linguist Revesz suggested that we have always
needed interpersonal contact, and that language
began as sounds to signal both identity and belonging.
- The Hocus Pocus Theory
- Language may have had some roots in a sort of
magical or religious aspect of our ancestors' lives
- Language may have had some roots in a sort of
magical or religious aspect of our ancestors' lives
- The Eureka! Theory
- Language was consciously invented
- Perhaps some ancestor had the idea
of assigning arbitrary sounds to mean
certain things
- Language was consciously invented
- Water Babies
- It May help us understand the origins
of languages, if we take a look at
what is sometimes called the
Hardy-Morgan hypothesis
- It May help us understand the origins
of languages, if we take a look at
what is sometimes called the
Hardy-Morgan hypothesis
- Musical Babies
- Darwin said «Humans don't
speak unless they are taught to
do so», ie language is learned,
and not innate in the way that
the famous linguist Noam
Chomsky and Steven Pinker, the
author of «The Language
Instinct» said.
- Babies like music and mothers like to use a sort of
sing-song speech, which babies like even more. Babies
begin to vocalize in very «musical» ways, and often hum
or sing in short or long «phrases», with modulations
- Darwin said «Humans don't
speak unless they are taught to
do so», ie language is learned,
and not innate in the way that
the famous linguist Noam
Chomsky and Steven Pinker, the
author of «The Language
Instinct» said.
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