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The origin of language
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Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their…
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- … Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The …
- … communicate to each other” (Barrett ed. 1987, p. 542-3). Darwin observed the similarities between …
- … and controversially debated in the Victorian period in a variety of fields, including comparative …
- … Proponents of the natural language theory included Darwin’s cousin, Hensleigh Wedgwood , the …
- … Whitney . Others argued that language was uniquely human, a manifestation of man’s higher nature …
- … theological view of language was Friedrich Max Müller , a German linguist and oriental scholar …
- … the cries of beasts” (Müller 1861, 1: 22-3, 354). Darwin eventually published his views on …
- … the similarities between animal and human communication. Darwin’s arguments were based on his broad …
- … in children, linguistic pathologies, and the behaviour of a wide range of animals, wild and domestic …
- … as well as observations of his own children and pets. Darwin described how language might have …
- … and to compete with other males. The origins of language as a system of signifiers, he added, might …
- … and snarls, for example), which functioned as warning signs. Darwin addressed the natural theology …
- … other functions, especially the use of the hands. Finally, Darwin drew an extended analogy between …
- … and remarking on how each developed gradually through a process of struggle: “the survival of …
- … brains of primates? Are animals capable of using language in a structured way, and do they possess …
- … progenitor of the human race? Such questions, addressed in a variety of scientific disciplines, …
- … sources Barrett, Paul. et al. eds. Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836-1841. Cambridge: …
- … Alex V. W. Bikkers. London: John Camdem Hotten. Wake, C. S. 1868. Chapters on man, with the …
- … and natural theology in the nineteenth century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. …
- … Johns Hopkins University Press. Alter, Steven G. 2008. Darwin and the linguists: the …
- … . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Hurford, James R., Michael Studdert-Kennedy, and Chris Knight, …
