The Dawn of Language  

Oleh:

Brooks, Nelson

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 8 no. 1 (1975), page 18-21.
Fulltext: 08_01_Brooks.pdf (323.29KB)

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Current studies in anthropology, archeology, prehistory, and biology point to the conclusion that man. language, and culture all began at the same time, some two million years ago, in southeast Africa. The dawn of language for (lie race is recapitulated for the individual as each child. in the first two years of life, seizes upon the knack of putting sounds together in a systematic way that permits him to symbolize, in communicable form, the segments of reality around and within him. The universal occurrence of this remarkable phenomenon strongly suggests that only a genetic factor can account for the cradle learni~ig~sopfo ken speech. But the dawn of language as the all-embracing prerequisite of man’s status as man has not yet come to the academic world. And it will not come until language is established as a discipline in its own right, a discipline called, quite simply, ‘Language,’ that will support, envigorate, and enlighten all areas of study having to do with the intellect of man.

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