ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE - ARTICLES & NEWS

SCIENCE PAPERS, DRAFTS & PRESENTATIONS

You need more time to read the concise information in the drafts, papers and studies below, but they are very useful for your own research:

• The memetic origin of language: modern humans as musical primates ("..Musicality, singing capacity, we argue, underlies both the evolutionary origin of human language and its development during early childhood..." - Detailed)

• The Origin Of Language: The General Problem ("..What is needed is a synergistic approach to the problem of language origins. How should one delimit the phenomenon of language? What would count as the origin of the process..? - Detailed)

• The Little Bang: The Early Origin of Language (Colloquium on Violence and Religion)

• On The Origin Of Language ("..In the Western world the study of language began as a philosophical inquiry into origins..")

• The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process ("..A lexicon of Sumerian which is organized on the basis of phonetic structure..")

• The Role Of The Hand In The Evolution Of Language (Detailed paper)

• The Natural Origin Of Language: The Structural Inter-relation of Language, Visual Perception and Action (Seven chapters; Detailed)

• So How Did Language Emerge? On the Creation of the Form of Language (Detailed)

• Approaching The Iconic Theory Of Language Origin: Pertinent Laws and Tendencies from Phonosemantics ("..The paper discusses 15 semiotic laws and tendencies established by Phonosemantics and fundamental to the Iconic Theory of Language Origin)

• Brain Evolution And Neurolinguistic Preconditions ("".This target article presents a plausible evolutionary scenario for the emergence of the neural preconditions for language in the hominid lineage..")

• Preconditions For The Evolution Of Protolanguages ("..There are compelling cognitive considerations that restrict the form of any evolutionary hypothesis about the origins of language..")

• Overview Of The Motor Theory ("..The essential ideas forming the motor theory of language origin and evolution are summarized here..")

• Language Evolution And The Complexity Criterion ("..Though it is increasingly accepted in the behavioral sciences, the evolutionary approach is still meeting resistance in linguistics)

• Language Evolution and the Brain

• The Physical Foundation Of Language (Detailed)

• Did language evolve like the vertebrate eye? (Detailed)

• and more...

HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF MODERN LANGUAGES

Like to know where your language originates from? Then take a look to the following articles and studies:

• The origin of Finnish and related Languages
  

• Origin of Celtic Languages ("..The six modern Celtic Languages evolved from Old Celtic, once spoken from Britain and Ireland to Galatia in Turkey..")

• History of the English Language

• The Origin of Language in Chinese Thought

• Japanese And The Motor Theory Of Language ("..Japanese is a relatively ordinary language in terms of its phonology, lexicon and syntax. Its reputation as a special or difficult language derives largely from social contextual factorse..")

• Complex-Text Languages - An Overview

• and more..

ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE AND RELIGION

The 'Tower of Bable' is the wellknown origin of the language as far religion is concerned. Here are some related information, including artistic impressions of the 'Tower of Bable':

• The Tower Of Babel vs 4,000 Years Of Chinese History ("..After the people of Babylon had built a very high tower, following the great flood, because God confounded the tongue of every individual, the people appeared to each other only to Babel hence the name 'Tower of Babel.' ")

• The Degeneration Of Language - And The Tower Of Babel

• The Tower of Babel ("..Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there...")

• Is there archaeological evidence of the Tower of Babel?

• Tower Of Bable (Artistic Impression)

• Tower Of Bable (Famous Painting by Pieter Bruegel)

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ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE: RELATED ISSUES

Touching the origin of language issue, the articles below are complement them very well:

• Evolution, Communication And The Proper Function Of Languages: A discussion of Millikan in the light of pragmatics and of the psychology of mindreading ("..Language is both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. Our aim here is to discuss, in an evolutionary perspective, the articulation of these two aspects of language..")

• The Primitive Vocabulary: Shapes And Things; Movements And Actions Qualities And Relations ("..there must be, at the most elementary level, a systematic relation between the unitary features of vision, action and speech, from which more complex forms of perception, action and language are constructed..")

• The origins of linguistic universals: Darwin and Chomsky together again ("..For several decades, Chomskyan linguistics and Darwinian evolution have been seen by most scholars as antithetical. A handful of linguists (Pinker, Bloom, Newmeyer) have tried to reconcile the two frameworks. However, their proposals satisfy neither side, and fail to show why one particular set of universals evolved rather than any other..")

• and more...

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