“ The Natural Sound Source “ Primitive words could have been imitations of the naturel sounds which early men and women heard around them “ Examples : cuckoo, splash, bang, boom. 2 The Study of Language - George Yule The Divine Source The basic idea of the theory is that : “ If infants were allowed to grow up without hearing any language, then they would spontaneously begin using the original God-given language. Yet we have no physical evidance relating to the speech of our ancestors and because of this absence of evidance speculations about the origins of human speech have been developed.
We do not know that spoken language developed well before written language. The Study of Language - George Yule The Study of Language George Yule 1 The Study of Language - George Yule UNIT 1 THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE We simply do not know how language originated.
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