LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Onomatopoeia, Noam Chomsky, Animal Communication

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Yourie Pankrats

Document Summary

Language evolved from an existing animal communication system by accreting complications. communication. A lot of our primate were not able to do such a sophisticated. Language arose de novo; it is an entirely different type of system from animal communication. Many religions provide an account of the origin of human l-ge. Gift of god, we got it, admit this and that"s it. Attempts to answer this question from religious reasons. Rousseau, condillac, and herder (18th century) tried to give some non-religious explanation of the origin of human l-ge, but these explanations were regarded as speculations. Linguistic society of paris made decision to ban all presentations or any papers concerning the origin of human l-ge in 1866. Problem is: different opinion, no serious publication, no serious evidence any idea whether religious or non religious. No serious investigator of origin of language. Noam chomsky (1960) regarded the origin of human l-ge as a matter of evolutionary biology.