Chapter 1What is language?A The origins of languageSome speculations of the origins of language: The divine sourceThe basic hypothesis: if infants were allowed to grow up without hearing any language, then they would spontaneously begin using the original god-given language.Actually, children living without access to human speech in their early years grow up with no language at all. The natural-sound sourceThe bow-wow theory: the suggestion is that primitive words could have
