语言的起源.ppt

语言的起源
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The Divine source
Adam’s naming
God created Adam and “out of the ground the theory
      Language arose from instinctive emotional cries, expressive of pain or joy.
ouch, ah, hey, wow
The yo-he-ho theory
      Language arose from the sounds made by a group of people engaged in joint labour or effort – lifting a huge hunted game, moving a rock, etc.
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The natural-sound source
Ding-dong theory
Müller (in the 1800s) claimed a mystic harmony or correlation between sound and meaning. Just as in nature, every object, when struck by a solid body, gave off its own peculiar sound, so man's mind gave off a particular response to the various impact which the world made upon it.
Sing-song theoryOr music theory. Put forward by Otto Jesperson, a great Danish linguist, the theory held that primitive language consisted of very long words, using tone and pitch more than later languages, and a wider range of musical intervals; that it was more passionate and musical than later language.
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The oral-gesture source
There is little possibility of making communication during work.
There is no possibility of making communication in the dark.
verbal communication
It claims that originally a set of physical gestures was developed as a means of communication. Then a set of gestures, specifically involving the mouth, developed, in which the movement similar to physical gestures.
This proposal, involving what was called “ was a specialized pantomime of the tongue and lips” by Sir Richard Paget.
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Glossogenetics(言语遗传学）
There is certain relationship between the development of language and the evolutionary development of the human species.
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In evolutionary development there are certain physical features, best thought of as partial adaptations, that appear to be relevan