The origins of language.
THE TOOL-MAKING SOURCE THE GENETIC SOURCE.
Humans started making tools and
manipulating objects using both
hands. Manual gestures may have
been a precursor of language: oral
gesture theory. Bringing words
together like bringing two rocks
together to make a tool. Young
babies
go
through
developments: small brain, larynx
higher in throat, changes take place.
Almost automatic set of development.
Even children who are born deaf
become fluent speakers of a sign
language. Claim that human off
spring are born with a special
capacity for language (innateness
hypothesis).