语言学 3
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that in last week
’s classes I talked about how the sounds made by most animals
though sometimes complex are different from human language. Only
in humans
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represent描绘, 表现; 表示; 象征; 作为...的代表objects and events keep
in mind
that most animals can only repeat limited
utterances 说话, 说话的方式, 发表#意见; 发表; 说话 over and over again. While, humans can say things
that have never been says before. Today I wand to focus on human language and how it developed .
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I doubt your surprised when I say that the evolution of language was slow and laborious费力的, 吃力的; 牵强的; 勤勉的; 生硬的 .There are some reliable evidence that language began with early humans a million and in half years ago. Though the study of the size and shape of brain fossils , scientists have determined that early human brains, like modern brains, had a left hemisphere半球, 大脑半球, 地球的半面slightly larger than the right hemisphere. We know that in modern humans the left hemisphere the seat of language . We also know that early human brains had a well developed frontal前面的, 额的, 正面的 section , known as Broca's area, which coordinates 调整; 整理; 协调一致the muscles使劲行进of the mouth and throat咽喉, 喉咙;.
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0 W0 O& c- |! T$ ~- ] It’s clearly then, that early humans had a speech apparatus仪器, 器械; 器官. They could produce any sound that we can. What we don't know is whether early humans used what they had. Since scholars学者; 古典学者know virtually nothing about prehistoric有文字记载的历史以前的, 史前的; 完全过时的, 旧式的; 非常古老的speech patterns, all they can do is speculate深思, 投机, 推测; 推测, 推断about how language actually originated. Let me give you a brief summary of some of these theories.
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