The Origins of Language

The mama theory
1. Language began with the easist syllabes attached to the most significant objects.
The ta-ta theory
1. Richard Paget
2. Body movements preceded language.
3. Unconscious vocal imitation of movements.
The bow-wow theory
1. Imitations of natural sounds.
2. Onomatopeia or echoism.
The pooh-pooh theory
1. Language began with interjections.
2. Oh!, ouch!, wow.
The ding-dong theory
1. Max Muller
2. Correspondence between sounds and meanings.
3. Small, sharp and high things.
  1. High, front vowels.
4. Big, round and low things.
  1. Round, back vowels.
The yo-he-ho theory
1. Language began as rythmic chants.
2. Asssitance or cooperation accompanied by appropiate gestures.
The sing-song theory
1. Jesperson
2. Language comes out of play, laughter, cooing and courtship.
3. Some first words were long and musical.
The hey you! theory
1. Revesz
2. The contact theory.
3. Sounds to signal identity and belonging.
The hocus pocus theory
1. It has roots in magical and religious aspect of our ancestors' lives.
2. The animals sounds become in their names.
The eureka! theory
1. Language was consciously invented.
2. Ancestor assigned arbitrary sounds to mean certain things.
  1. Monogenesis
  2. Polygenesis
Water babies
1. Hardy-Morgan Hypothesis
2. Humans have different characteristics versus to the primates.
3. Homo must have spent some portion of live in water bodies.
  1. It allowed the strength and coordination.
Musical babies
1. Mario Vaneechoutte
2. Music is innate.
3. We are born ready to make music and so speech.

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