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Steven Pinker, following Noam Chomsky and ultimately Immanuel Kant, believes that humans are born with a "language instinct:" a neural processing network that contains a universal grammar that has developed specifically for encoding and decoding human languages. Derek Bickerton has suggested that the language faculty may have evolved in two major steps. The first is a protolanguage of symbolic representation and verbal and/or gestural signs, and the second formal syntax. Symbolic representation would allow modeling of reality and cons ...

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Origin of language, Origin of language - History, Origin of language - Anthropological hypotheses, Origin of language - Linguistic hypotheses, Origin of language - Monogenesis, Origin of language - Spontaneous emergence of grammar

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A fundamental problem of language origin is the Continuity Paradox: language acquisition apparently only occurs in situations involving pre-existing languages, or at the very least pidgin communication. In the 19th century, philosophers and linguists proposed a number of hypotheses to explain the origin of language, which are noteworthy for their names even if none of them have vanquished their competitors in the battles for scientific credibility. The first such names were coined by Otto Jespersen as a way of deriding the hypotheses as simp ...

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Origin of language, Origin of language - History, Origin of language - Anthropological hypotheses, Origin of language - Linguistic hypotheses, Origin of language - Monogenesis, Origin of language - Spontaneous emergence of grammar

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Origin of language - Anthropological hypotheses: Encyclopedia II - Origin of language - Spontaneous emergence of grammar

From Romulus and Remus forward, there have been a number of accounts of wolf children or feral children raised by wild animals or out of human contact. These accounts exist mostly in anecdote and hearsay as well; but most of them affirm that these children never learned to speak a language, or learned it imperfectly. There have also been accounts of twins who spoke an unintelligible language only their sibling understood. These cases are better documented; in the 1970s, the Kennedy twins whose given names were "Grace" and "Virginia" called e ...

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Origin of language, Origin of language - History, Origin of language - Anthropological hypotheses, Origin of language - Linguistic hypotheses, Origin of language - Monogenesis, Origin of language - Spontaneous emergence of grammar

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Origin of language - Anthropological hypotheses: Encyclopedia II - Origin of language - Monogenesis

A related question concerns the possibility of linguistic monogenesis, a hypothesis that holds that there was one single protolanguage (the "Proto-World language") from which all other languages spoken by humans descend. The linguists Joseph Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen have advocated such a position. The reconstruction of such a protolanguage, if it exists, would be the Holy Grail of historical linguistics. Some have gone as far as to claim that there exist etymological root words that are supposed to exist in all languages; one such ...

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Origin of language, Origin of language - History, Origin of language - Anthropological hypotheses, Origin of language - Linguistic hypotheses, Origin of language - Monogenesis, Origin of language - Spontaneous emergence of grammar

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Origin of language - Anthropological hypotheses: Encyclopedia II - Origin of language - History

One of the earliest accounts of the origin of languages is in the Hebrew Bible, in the book of Genesis (dated to the early 1st millennium BC). Genesis 2:19-20 has God giving Adam the task of assigning names to all the animals and plants he had in Eden (see nomothete). The key biblical narrative of the observed linguistic variety is the story that God punished human presumption in building the Tower of Babel (see confusion of tongues) (Genesis 11:1-9). Additionally, Genesis 10:5 tells how, before Babel, the languag ...

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Origin of language, Origin of language - History, Origin of language - Anthropological hypotheses, Origin of language - Linguistic hypotheses, Origin of language - Monogenesis, Origin of language - Spontaneous emergence of grammar

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