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Theories of language origins properties of language

Dr. Allan D. Tipan

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2.It theorizes that speech comes from the automatic vocal responses to pain, fear, surprise, or other emotions
4.the idea that language may have had some roots in a sort of magical or religious aspect of our ancestors' lives (2 Words)
5.It theorizes language began as imitations of natural sounds
8.It means that human linguistic signs do not have any natural connection between its form and meaning.
11.It means that human language can overcome the limitations of time and space.
13.it refers to the property that language can be used for lying and deception
14.this theory connotes that language was consciously invented
15.It believed that body movement preceded language
16.it refers to the property that linguistic signals do not normally serve any other type of purpose
17.it refers to the property that human language can be both spoken and written
20.This refers to the uniqueness of the sounds used in human languages
21.it refers to the property that human languages are passed down by the society in which one lives and grows up. (2 Words)
23.it refers to the property that any speaker/sender of a linguistic signal can also be alistener/receiver
25.it refers to the property that linguistic signals are produced and disappear quickly (2 Words)
26.focus mainly on the biological basis of the formation and development of human language
27.suggested that language comes out of play, laughter, cooing, courtship, emotional mutterings and the like
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1.This theory of the origin of language analyzes the physical structure of humans in terms of their capability to have language. Human teeth, lips, mouth et al (2 Words)
3.This refers to the human ability to combine limited linguistic signs to produce new sentences and expressions
6.The theory comes from the idea that there is a link between physical gesture and orally produced sounds (2 Words)
7.The sounds of a person involved in physical effort could be the source of our language, especially when that physical effort involved several people and had to be coordinated
9.It posits that language began with the easiest syllables attached to the most significant objects.
10.It holds the belief that human speech is based on natural sounds (3 Words)
12.it refers to the property that linguistic signals can be picked up by anyone withinhearing, even unseen
18.It connotes that language came from a god or supreme being (2 Words)
19.The idea that speech emerged from the sounds of inspired playfulness, love, poetic sensibility, and song is best hypothesized in the _______ theory.
22.theory that points out that there is a rather mysterious correspondence between sounds and meanings.
24.This theory states that we have always needed interpersonal contact, and that language began as sounds to signal both identity and belonging (2 Words)

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