Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language

mostly those twins who are using their own language are talking to each
other because there's not enough contact to outsiders (grownup) to give
twins input.
And wolves, they had their language too. my ex-dog knew finnish,
doggish and cattish.
I mean: I think language comes from needs to communicate. Twins have
someone to communicate, so they came undepended from wolf.

--- Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > But they had knowledge of communication and
> probably of language,
> > too - if you'd just dump babies with a group of
> deaf & dumb adults
> > who have been forbidden to communicate, I don't
> think the idea of
> > communication would arise.
>
> I disagree, I think that language is such a
> fundamental part of human
> nature that language would *have* to arise.  I have
> a hard time
> imagining how spoken words could be evolved, but I
> could see how sign
> language could evolve out of a sophisticated game of
> charades (which is
> essentially the origin of Nicaraguan Sign Language).
>
> Of course, there's no way to prove this since,
> fortunately, no one has
> ever done this experiment.
>
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