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  1. The origins of language The suspicion does not appear improbable that the progenitors of man, either the males or females, or both sexes, before they had acquired the power of expressing their mutual love in articulate language, endeavoured to charm each other with musical notes and rhythm. Darwin (1871)

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  2. Apr 18, 2019 · PDF | We simply do not know how language originated. We do not know that spoken language developed well before written language. Yet we have no physical... | Find, read and cite all the...

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  4. Jan 1, 2013 · PDF | This chapter is a selective comparative and critical survey of speculations/hypotheses, since Antiquity, on the phylogenetic emergence of language... | Find, read and cite all the...

  5. The correct theory of evolution of language, in my opinion, is this: language evolved from animal cognition not from animal communication. Here lies the continuity. Language grew out of cognitive systems already in existence and working: it formed a communicative bridge between already-cognitive animals.

  6. The Origins and the Evolution of Language. Salikoko S. Mufwene. University of Chicago Collegium de Lyon (2010-2011) 1. Introduction. Although language evolution is perhaps more commonly used in linguistics than. evolution of language, I stick in this essay to the latter term, which focuses more specifically on.

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  7. the origin and evolution of human language. Language remains in the minds of many philosophers, lin-guists, and biologists a quintessentially human trait (1–3). Attempts to shed light on the evolution of human language have come from many areas including studies of primate social behavior (4–6), the diversity of existing human languages (7,

  8. Mar 28, 2023 · Origin of Language. There are more than 7000 living languages across the globe today (Lewis2009). To approach the topic of the ongoing evolution of language that spans millennia, we first need to determine its origin. However, the question by itself poses a challenge.

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