LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Oneword, Orangutan, Homo Habilis
6 Dec 2018
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Ling 1010 lecture 28 - the evolution of language. 13 billion years ago: birth of the universe. 4. 5 billion years ago: birth of planet earth. 3. 8 billion years ago: origin of life. 543 million years ago: modern-day species of life. Perhaps there was a one-word system in the beginning, in which each word meant a speci c thing and only one word was uttered to convey a meaning between two human beings. After the one-word system, perhaps the one-word system began to evolve into the proto-languages, or pre- languages, such as signing and gesturing. After some time, it is likely that these changes and innovations in communication eventually led to the. Rst language that existed, a theory known as proto-world . There is no direct evidence of the emergence/evolution of language. Many theories have been proposed about the topic, as: a scarcity of evidence encourages more theories, more possibilities. 55 million years ago: the rst primates.
