COMD 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vocal Folds, Innateness Hypothesis, Divine Language
9 Dec 2014
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Right one, but how some can be interpreted as wrong . * we don"t know exactly how and when human language began. * all vertebrates have the ability to produce sound and vocal patterning. * language is at least 50,000 years old, some experts even say it may be closer to 100,000. * divine source language given by a higher power. Adam and whatsoever adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof . In hindu tradition, language came from the wife of brahma, creator of the universe. * ancient hypothesis that human infants reared without language input would naturally speak the original god-given language. * children reared without language contact in early years tend to never develop fluent language. In order to rediscover the divine language, few experiments have been carried out and left researchers with conflicting results. * herodotus" account of egyptian pharoah psammetichus" experiment nearly 2,500 years ago.
