"How does language emerge?" Topic
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Tango01 | 06 Jan 2020 8:46 p.m. PST |
"How the languages of the world emerged is largely a mystery. Considering that it might have taken millennia, it is intriguing to see how deaf people can create novel sign languages spontaneously. Observations have shown that when deaf strangers are brought together in a community, they come up with their own sign language in a considerably short amount of time. The most famous example of this is Nicaraguan Sign Language, which emerged in the 1980s. Interestingly, children played an important role in the development of these novel languages. However, how exactly this happened has not been documented, as Manuel Bohn describes: "We know relatively little about how social interaction becomes language. This is where our new study comes in." In a series of studies, researchers at the Leipzig Research Centre for Early Childhood Development and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology attempted to recreate exactly this process. The idea had been around for quite some time, says Gregor Kachel. But there was a problem: how to make children communicate with each other without them reverting to talking to each other? The solution came up in Skype conversations between the two researchers from Germany and their colleague Michael Tomasello in the US. In the study, children were invited to stay in two different rooms and a Skype connection was established between them. After a brief familiarization with the set-up, the researchers sneakily turned off the sound and watched as the children found new ways of communicating that go beyond spoken language…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Oberlindes Sol LIC | 06 Jan 2020 9:25 p.m. PST |
Neal Stephenson provided an interesting discussion about how language arises in Snow Crash (1992). |
Tango01 | 07 Jan 2020 11:17 a.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand |
von Schwartz | 24 Jan 2020 5:28 p.m. PST |
Well, in my experience you can get a great deal of language by SMACKING your thumb with a hammer!! |
Robert le Diable | 31 Jan 2020 7:20 a.m. PST |
James VI of Scots, in order to discover the language spoken in the Garden of Eden, is said to have arranged for two babies, male and female, to be left on an island with a mute nurse to care for them. |
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