Human Comunication and its Origins

             The Origins Of Human Language And It's Relationship to Animal Communication Systems
             Human language is one of the most important milestones in human history. Much of our species is dependent on the intricacies of language to generate new ideas, converse and to solve the daily challenges life throws at people, but this tool which people use to communicate is pretty mysterious. Forms of animal communication bear so little resemblance to the human language that some scientists and scholars (American Science) believe that the origin of language lies in manual gestures, not in vocalization. Since the exact location, time or place of the language origin is not known there are many theories on how ,when, or where language originated. Undoubtedly, human language development
             is in some way, shape or form related to animal communication.
             One theory, from Hinchingbrooke School, (www.hinchbk.cambs.sch.uk) is that men used language to warn each other in battle or during hunting, or that women were the first conversationalists working together at home using language to entertain themselves or to pass the time, Evidence for the latter theory exists as girls learn language faster than boys. (Hinchingbrooke School) Also it is thought that human hunters first used hand signals for hunting and then eventually progressed into verbal communication. As spoken language leaves no traces in the historic record ,we probably will never know.
             It is thought that with increasing man's knowledge and use of tools a proto-speech developed: out of mouth-gestures patterned after hand gestures and combined with vocalizations.(www. massey.ac.nz.) Now the development of more abstract conceptual thinking was possible. The use of gestural language suffered. It was often difficult to understand exactly what the individual meant. A concreteness was lost. The invention and diffusion of phonemicized speech ...

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