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This chapter tries to give speculations about where language come from?
There are six speculations and theories which have supporting evidence
and criticizing evidence for each of them :
-THESE ARE:
1- The Divine Source
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1- The Divine Source :
c-To argue against this source, it can be agreed that it is hard to see how
most of the soundless things and abstract concepts. language can be a set of
names only.
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6-The Genetic Source
b-The the argument for (support) this source is that human baby is
born wired and programmed with basics language.
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production. They are usually produced with sudden intakes of breath, which
2. Primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds that early
humans heard around them and all modern languages have words that are
3. First, his conclusion was based on very little evidence and, second, it seems
more reasonable to assume that the children in his study were producing a
4. The pharynx is above the larynx (or the voice box or the vocal folds). When
the larynx moved lower, the pharynx became longer and acted as a resonator,
resulting in increased range and clarity of sounds produced via the larynx.
5. If these deaf children do not develop speech first, then their language
ability would not seem to depend on those physical adaptations of the teeth,
larynx, etc., that are involved in speaking. If all children (including those
born deaf) can acquire language at about the same time, they must be born
with a special capacity to do so. The conclusion is that it must be innate and
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