Emergence of living language: ontogeny–phylogeny framework and other parallels of linguistics and biology

Author:

Zemková Michaela1

Affiliation:

1. Charles University in Prague , Faculty of Science, Department of Philosophy and History of Science , Viničná 7, Praha 2 , 120 00

Abstract

Abstract Although language is something deeply embedded in our nature, the question of its origin is of the same order as the misty question of the origin of life. I point out that the core of the problem can be rooted in the dichotomy between language and speech, similar to the dichotomy of genotype and phenotype in biology. Following the ontogeny–phylogeny framework, I propose that studies of language ontogeny, especially its early stages, can bring a new understanding to language, same as the study of communication in non-human primates.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Medicine

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