语言学 10.pptVIP

Origin of language The divine source The natural-sound source The evolutionary theory The divine source In most of the early theories, there exists a god who provides human with the ability of language. People propose these theories think that if infants were brought up without hearing any language, the sounds they produce might be the original human language. The natural-sound source It suggests original human language may be the imitation of the natural sounds which early men and women heard around them.(the bow-wow theory) Another part of this theory is that language originally arose o