Re: OT: "Tracheal" consonants: a curiosity?
| From: | # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 3, 2005, 2:02 |
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Paul Bennett wrote:
>From: # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
> > Yeah that's what I mean, using such sound modifies the throat...
> > (a genetic
> > particularity inherited from succecive generations of epiglottis
> > users?Anyway ,that's not really important...)
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>That's simply not how genetic evolution works, though it is how
>Lamarkian evolution works, which was a fairly dominant theory before
>genetics as a science came to the fore.
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I know this, I'm a little aware of genetic.
>The simple fact is that (aside from a few extreme situations) the
>environment does not shape the existing genes of a living creature. If
>there were a situation where passing on your genes to the next
>generation depended on your ability to produce epiglottal consonants, I
>could agree, but I find it quite hard to construct a plausible scenario
>where that would be the case.
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I don't think it's that hard, if one uses sounds that ruin his voice, it is
plausible that he'll get social problems that could lead to the
impossibility of having children.. It conducts to a selection of people that
can speak without such problems... OK that's treaky....
But social abilities could certainly lead to a form of selection. If these
social abilities pass by the talking what I said can be true
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>Paul