Early Voices: The Leap to Language.

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  • Author(s): Wade, Nicholas
  • Source:
    New York Times. 7/15/2003, Vol. 152 Issue 52545, pF1. 0p. 3 Color Photographs, 1 Map.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      ORIGIN of languages; LINGUISTICS; ARCHAEOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY theories; CHOMSKY, Noam, 1928-; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; ECOLINGUISTICS
    • Abstract:
      Addresses the evolutionary origins of language, which has long held a central role in human nature and sociality. Reasons why the Linguistic Society of Paris declared that it wanted no more speculative articles about the origin of language and its reluctance to theories about evolution; Work of Noam Chomsky, a founder of modern linguistics, who has been largely silent on the issue of language origin; Clues that have emerged from archaeology, genetics, and human behavioral ecology that perhaps the origin of language is not completely lost.