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Mind Map by Adriana Martínez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Adriana Martínez
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The Origins of Language
- Sound-related theories
- mama
- Language began with the easiest syllables attached to the
most significant objects.
- Language began with the easiest syllables attached to the
most significant objects.
- ta-ta
- Language began as an unconscious vocal imitation of gestures
- Language began as an unconscious vocal imitation of gestures
- bow-wow
- Language began as imitations of natural sounds, like
choo-choo or meow
- Language began as imitations of natural sounds, like
choo-choo or meow
- pooh-pooh
- It began with interjections, or instinctive emotional
cries, such as ouch! for pain
- It began with interjections, or instinctive emotional
cries, such as ouch! for pain
- ding-dong
- Points out the correspondence between sounds and
meanings, also known as sound symbolism
- Points out the correspondence between sounds and
meanings, also known as sound symbolism
- yo-he-ho
- Language began as rhythmic chants, perhaps ultimately
from the grunts of heavy work.
- Language began as rhythmic chants, perhaps ultimately
from the grunts of heavy work.
- sing-song
- Suggests that language comes out of laughter,
courtship, emotional mutterings and the like.
- Suggests that language comes out of laughter,
courtship, emotional mutterings and the like.
- hey you!
- Sounds that signal belonging and identity were the start of
what we know as language
- Sounds that signal belonging and identity were the start of
what we know as language
- mama
- Evolution-related theories
- Water babies
- Suggests that we must have spent some portion of our existence in the
water, which led to us developing different skills that our primate relatives
lack such as communication skills
- Suggests that we must have spent some portion of our existence in the
water, which led to us developing different skills that our primate relatives
lack such as communication skills
- Musical babies
- suggest that language comes from music, with some assitance from gestures
and dance and that, just like music, it comes to us naturally and can evolve
from simple to complex
- suggest that language comes from music, with some assitance from gestures
and dance and that, just like music, it comes to us naturally and can evolve
from simple to complex
- Water babies
- Frequency of creation
- monogenesis
- States that language may have been invented
only once by our earliest ancestors
- States that language may have been invented
only once by our earliest ancestors
- polygenesis
- Suggests that i}t could have been created multiple
times by a number of different people
- Suggests that i}t could have been created multiple
times by a number of different people
- monogenesis
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