Origin Of Language

Question 1

How did language start?

Answer 1

No definitive answer on how language started (Yule, 2020)

Question 2

When was the 1st language spoken?

Answer 2

Even though at the given period of time there is no direct evidences when exactly.

Question 3

Linguist suspects as where spoken language started.

Answer 3

100,000 and 50,000 years ago

Question 4

Believed to be language spoken by Adam.

Answer 4

Adamic Language

Question 5

Is Adamic language debunked?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

How do Catholics perceive language?

Answer 6

God-given gift

Question 7

These theorists recognize how complex language is and infers that language had to evolve as humans did.

Answer 7

Continuity Approach

Question 8

In continuity approach, primitive people has their language formed from ________.

Answer 8

The highest animal

Question 9

This theory claims that language is spontaneous and exclusive to humans.

Answer 9

Discontinuity Approach

Question 10

Simply debunks continuity approach.

Answer 10

Discontinuity Approach

Question 11

Found only in humans.

Answer 11

Language Organ

Question 12

“Mother Tongue Theories” & “Out of Africa Theories”. Some scholars believe language was a single spontaneous occurence in Africa.

Answer 12

Monogenesis

Question 13

Proponent of monogenesis.

Answer 13

James Cowles

Question 14

This implies that language began in multiple places and times.

Answer 14

Polygenesis

Question 15

Proponent of polygenesis.

Answer 15

John Alkin

Question 16

Continuity approach, discontinuity approach, monogenesis, polygenesis.

Answer 16

Language Origin Sources

Question 17

Language began with the easiest syllables attached to the most significant objects.

Answer 17

Mama Theory

Question 18

Body movement preceded language; that language began as an unconscious vocal imitation of these movements.

Answer 18

Ta-Ta Theory

Question 19

Proponent of Ta-Ta Theory

Answer 19

Sir Richard

Question 20

From “gestures”.

Answer 20

Ta-Ta Theory

Question 21

Supposes that human speech originated in man’s attempt to imitate the sound of nature.

Answer 21

Bow-Wow Theory

Question 22

Theory thar seeks the origin of language in such involuntary exclamations or interjections.

Answer 22

Pooh-Pooh Theory

Question 23

Proponent of Bow-Wow and Pooh-Pooh Theory

Answer 23

Max Muller

Question 24

This was upheld by Max Muller but later it was abandoned. It sough to explain the correspondence between sound and sense.

Answer 24

Ding-Dong Theory

Question 25

Somehow similar to bow-wow theory, but in this theory we imitate the sound of objects.

Answer 25

Ding-Dong Theory

Question 26

Limited theory, because there are sounds that objects cannot make.

Answer 26

Ding-Dong Theory

Question 27

This theory suggests that language evolved from the grunts, groans, and snorts evoked by physical labor.

Answer 27

Yo-He-Ho Theory

Question 28

Main proponent of Yo-he-ho theory.

Answer 28

Arthur Sigismund Diamond

Question 29

Language comes out of play, laughter, cooing, courtship, emotional mutterings and the line.

Answer 29

Sing-Song Theory

Question 30

Human speech roots from rhythmic sounds of songs and ritual dances.

Answer 30

Sing-Song Theory

Question 31

Propenent of sing-song theory.

Answer 31

Danish Linguist Jesperson

Question 32

Revesz suggested that we have always needed interpersonal contact, and that language began as sounds to signal both identity (there I am!) and belonging (I’m with you!).

Answer 32

Hey You Theory

Question 33

This theory suggests that language may have had some roots in a sory of magical or religious aspect of our ancestors’ lives.

Answer 33

Hocus Pocus Theory

Question 34

This theory was consciously invented. Perhaps some ancestor had the idea of assigning arbitrary sounds to mean certain things.

Answer 34

Eureka! Theory

Question 35

How and when language started remain a __________.

Answer 35

msytery

Question 36

Language is constantly ____________.

Answer 36

evolving