LLCU 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Universal Grammar, Noam Chomsky, Ideogram
6 Mar 2017
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2: theories concerning the origin of language = echoic theories. Bow-wow theory: humanoids that imitated animals: 2. Pooh-pooh theory: when they started expressing noises that were related to their emotional states (ie. aiya, oh, ow, after hitting foot: 3. Ding-dong theory: imitating noises that objects made (ie. cling things together, banging on things) In the beginning, meaningless sounds began to gain meaning after repetition and social transmission: social cooperation. Speech = physiological, what we express and also wat we write: anatomical: vocal apparatus. Language can exist without speech, but speech can"t exist without language: baby left in a room cannot develop language, Likely that language developed before speech: physiologically impossible to make sounds, move makes a pharyngeal chamber above, without this movement, we as human beings would not be able to articulate the sounds we are able to articulate now. If we aren"t exposed to language, we will not have language.
