Language Is An Innate Function Of Human Nature

=> The recent discovery of ‘mirror neurons’ suggests that rather than vocal communication having evolved directly, the evolution of human speech may have been derived from a communication system of manual gestures.

Famous American anthropologist and social theorist Clyde Kluckholm , claims in one of his publication that “Every language is also a special way of looking at the world and interpreting experience concealed in the structure of language are a whole set of unconscious assumptions about the world and the life in it”(Writing logically, Thinking critically 7th edition P 35). Based on this theory, we can learn more

Continuing, though much of the mystery surrounding the production of language had been uncovered by the discovery of Broca's area, many unknowns still existed regarding how exactly humans were able to understand the language we produced. Ten years after the identification of Broca's area, a German neurologist named Carl Wernicke would pioneer research into the portions of the brain dedicated to understanding language.

The way that this idea connects with society of the Ethiopian Gelada monkeys is that as the article mentioned: "Language is a form of gestures sounds to simply make the world a less frightening place". The world that monkeys live in is socially different than ours and they communicate create togetherness to survive. I believe that humans too started off with simple noises as these Gelada monkeys and ended up with clear speech. So, perhaps, we, human, came to existence we started making first sounds, gestures to explain our thoughts of our inner worlds. We created language to protect ourselves from perhaps other nations, create secret information through our gestures and language and encourage each other as we speak. We use language to try to build relationships with one another and this idea and a lot more makes many similarities with other amazing creatures like these Gelada monkeys which are considered to be ancestors as the article suggests. Clearly, Gelada monkeys open our minds to a more clear way of critical thinking regarding our human

The researchers learned so much about the three areas that support the language development in the human brain. Having the technology, the researchers can monitor activities in the brain while using language. There is parts of the brain that can let us use language more ways than we can imagine. The important area of the brain is the Bronca which has an important part for our speech. This is located at the left part of brain by the frontal part. This controls our tongue and lips which help dictation and the pronunciation of words. If we did not have this, it would be impossible to speak without interpretation of what is being said. On the other side of the Broca’s area is the Wernicke’s area. The location for this is in the rear on left

Linguistic discourse arises from the multiple areas: from studies of primate social behavior, from the comparison of existing human languages, from research on the development of language in children, from studies of genetic and anatomical structures, from cross-cultural studies, from the observation of earning and forming lexicon, and from the studies of the communication of bees, birds, and mammals (cit). Initially, though, language, spoken or signed, was a gestural system that evolved from so-called “mirror system” in the primate brain. Mirror system is a mechanism that allows to equate self actions with actions of others; mirror system's neurons are part of dorsal visual system (citation). The dorsal pathway projects visual information

Then as the early humans progressed, they developed a series of grunts and gestures to communicate with each other. And over time formal languages evolved. But the languages that evolved are not present back at the point of the Source. The Source is the base, the beginning, the creative starting point of all existence. Languages and communication only came into existence further down the road.

Language derives from culture. Culture is everything in one’s life. Culture is a diverse topic in which extends to shape and form an individual, group, community, or even a society. According to the Merriam-Webster’s definition of culture, culture is, “the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations”. Culture derives from a practice of beliefs in one’s atmosphere. Although time changes, and people change, culture and one’s lifestyle will never die. Language is the main contributor in making a culture unique and special. It is the main reason why there are hundreds, thousands of different languages throughout the world. People communicate

The subtlety of language acquisition has been the most fundamental question in the study of linguistics and human development. From Bow-wow Theory to Yo-He-Ho Theory, major theories on the origins and learnability of language have emerged in mid-20th century and heavily debated ever since. Among them, the idea of universal grammar in which is usually credited to linguist Noam Chomsky, remains the most notable and controversial theory over time. He introduced and developed the theory from 1950s to 1970s, as he proposed and championed linguistic nativism in language acquisition. Chomsky supports that language mastery involves knowledge of linguistic rules and conventions, which he later named that as ‘cognizance’. He believes that cognizance

The evolution of human language is a highly debated topic with many perspectives and theories dating back to the 19th century and as a result is it a subject full of ambiguity. This is due to the fact that there is an abundance of theories with evidence to give them grounds to argue, not only this, but because more than one aspect of the evolution of language is in question. The first question lies in the purpose of its development, what evolutionary advantages would it present early humanity. The second is how it came to fruition, was it through natural selection or was it taught. The third query lies within the early stages of human language, what form did it take and why. Was language always vocal or did it start by being gestural similar to sign language. There is an abundance of forms of communication in the animal kingdom, namely babies crying for their mothers’ attention or calls to warn of danger. However, this can not be deemed as a language because in the context of evolutionary linguistics, language is defined “as any system which allows for the free and unfettered expression of thoughts into signals, and the complementary interpretation of such signals into thoughts” (Fitch, 2010 pg.

Chomsky proposed a theory of language acquisition, which holds that at least some knowledge about language exists in humans at birth. Additionally, that all languages share some properties of organization and structure. (Miller, p. 198)

Language is seen as the way in which humans communicate, and the acquisition of language for most humans starts at a young age. Although the debate of Nature vs. Nurture in regards to behaviorist reinforcement principles or universal grammar is used to stratify how child language acquisition comes about, an old and strong theory proposed by Noam Chomsky suggests that the ability to acquire a language is a natural and inborn phenomenon. He changed the world’s perspective by questioning behaviorist Burrhus Frederic Skinner’s theory which at the time held the simplest explanation believed to be most credible.

Burling’s article analyzes language as a system of sounds, words and sentences. In short, this article points to the notion that human beings communicate with digital and analog signals. Additionally, the title of this article refers to the idea that smiles, winks and words are precursors to a fully developed language.

In “The Symbolic Species,” Terrence Deacon states that language has been evolved specifically with the human brain. Deacon He argues that the structure of language should not merely be seen as the amalgam of “words and rules,” but as a complete system. Each word can be separated from one another in a sentence to focus on each word’s definition, but he looks at the combination of those words within a sentence, similar to “genes and organs of an organism.” (113), that provides a completely new pattern and perspective.

It is a topic of interest for several branches of modern academia, both in the Humanities and in natural science. As human language is one of the most unique traits our race has, if not the most, this comes as no surprise. The discussion concerning human language and the nature vs. nurture debate is however not the focus of this paper. But it makes sense that because of human language is so complex, the cognitive mechanisms in the brain which support it, must be rather complex aswell. Studies since the nineteenth century has proved that it is an important part of the brain for human language, and that is why Broca's area is