Language
Origins
How
came,
that the brightest subjects on earth
in
parting from their simian cousins
-
about 4-7 Mio. years ago -
startetd
to develop Language
when
the world got cold?
Theirs
became a means of communication
that
did not involve anymore
3
Dozen vocalizations to convey 3 Dozen meanings,
but
3 Dozen distinct sounds
that
mean to themselves nothing
but
as a code all.
How
and why got these smart, bipedal apes
capable
of representing anything they liked in sound strings?
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Unfortunately,
the rest of the site is currently available only in German.
What
might interest you anyway is the list of Literature on Language Origins,
for
it contains dozens of links to online-books and -papers on the matter -
and that is mostly in English.
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(c) 1998 by Stefan Etzel