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Post by chapdawg on Sept 21, 2004 9:17:31 GMT -5
I just thought that this was an interesting article and decided to share it. It is about Nicaraguan deaf children that have begun to develop their own language independant of any other language. It sheds light on the origin of language and the intelligent mind. www.nature.com/news/2004/040913/full/040913-19.html |
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Post by Seany-D on Sept 21, 2004 9:31:39 GMT -5
CD --
I saw that. Haven't had a chance to fully digest it, but fascinating.
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Post by Valvilis on Sept 27, 2004 23:48:01 GMT -5
It's interesting, but it's far from an answer. We've spent millions of years refining our language systems since our homonid ancestors. And they honed their languages from that of the apes, the prosimians before them, mammals prior. Almost all animals have some communication skill. The human mind has been working on ours for untold billions of years now since the dawn of life on earth. But the real magic has happened in the past million years or two. What those deaf children are showing is not how languages start, but how our brains store them over generations. We'll never know exactly how these systems evolved into being, but this does show us what our evolved language core looks like. Human core syntax could do wonders for linguistics...
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