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Language thus emerged from a natural human inclination to imitate the sounds of nature. Conventionalist: Language is a social convention. The names of things are arbitrary inventions of humans. Revelationist: Language was gifted to humans by God, and it was thus God—and not humans—who named everything.
- The Bow-Wow Theory
- The Ding-Dong Theory
- The La-La Theory
- The Pooh-Pooh Theory
- The Yo-He-Ho Theory
According to this theory, language began when our ancestors started imitating the natural sounds around them. The first speech was onomatopoeic—marked by echoic words such as moo, meow, splash, cuckoo, and bang.
This theory, favored by Plato and Pythagoras, maintains that speech arose in response to the essential qualities of objects in the environment. The original sounds people made were supposedly in harmony with the world around them.
The Danish linguist Otto Jespersen suggested that language may have developed from sounds associated with love, play, and (especially) song.
This theory holds that speech began with interjections—spontaneous cries of pain ("Ouch!"), surprise ("Oh!"), and other emotions ("Yabba dabba do!").
According to this theory, language evolved from the grunts, groans, and snorts evoked by heavy physical labor.
3 de feb. de 2016 · How humans evolved language, and who said what first. We are the only living ape with complex language, but why? What were the first words, and who spoke them? And did Neanderthals converse...
- Mark Pagel
26 de abr. de 2018 · Richard Nordquist. Updated on April 26, 2018. The expression language origins refers to theories pertaining to the emergence and development of language in human societies. Over the centuries, many theories have been put forward—and almost all of them have been challenged, discounted, and ridiculed. (See Where Does Language Come From?)
- Richard Nordquist
1 de sept. de 2017 · Language was built piece by piece through a cross fertilizing spiral whereby each step in the construction of language reinforced our potential for language and each step in the advancement of our potential for language made the advancement of language possible.
- Bernard H. Bichakjian
- 2017
11 de dic. de 2022 · Published: December 11, 2022 3:07am EST. When did humans first begin to speak, which speech sounds were uttered first, and when did language evolve from those humble beginnings? These...
The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques.
