Sentences with phrase «origin of language»

Nonetheless it is true that ideas about the evolutionary origin of language are difficult to test.

Turkey might be the geographic origin of languages from English to Hindi, according to epidemiological tracking techniques

Linguistic evidence, while more controversial and subject to criticism, also supports a South African origin of language.

By contrast, Alighiero Boetti's 1968 drawing Untitled, with its intense array of arcane symbols, investigates the very origin of language.

For Vyvyan Evans, a cognitive linguist, studying emoji entails exploring everything from the nature of communication to the evolutionary origins of language to how meaning arises in the human mind.

Atkinson shows a negative correlation between the number of phonemes in a language and its distance from Africa, and, assuming that phonemic diversity is subject to a serial founder effect, claims that this finding supports an African origin of language.

The story of the Tower of Babel sounds like an ancient folktale to explain the origin of languages.

There's no evidence to support creation, origin of species as described by the bible, and all the available evidence contradicts it — same for the global flood, Lot's wife into salt, man living in fish, all of Jesus's miracles including resurrection, man living to 900 years old, origin of languages, and so much more.

The origins of language are predominantly functional rather than representational.

Greenfield and her colleagues have taken Darwin's conclusions a step further, providing new evidence that the origins of language can be found in gestures and new insights into the co-evolution of gestures and speech.

Such correspondences are called «sound - symbolic,» and may be relevant to the evolutionary origins of language, Sathian adds.

A crate containing some the world's most important hominin fossils vanished amid war in 1941 — along with secrets about the origins of language

In 1866 the Linguistic Society of Paris got so exasperated by these unmoored musings that it banned all communication on the origin of language.

Lacking hard evidence, scholars of the past speculated broadly about the origin of language.

Biologist Russell Gray uses evolutionary ideas to probe the origin of languages and complex thinking.

This adds up to a profound difference in the underlying structures of the senses — a difference, it turns out, that raises compelling questions about the way we think, and perhaps even the origins of language.

Because there is so much variation in calls both between individuals and species, food calls provide a good way to study the origin of language, says Clay.

Many puzzles in the origin of language vanish if one assumes that it arose out of music.

The origins of language development in humans are mysterious, as the vocalisations of our closest existing biological relatives such as chimpanzees are relatively simple.

Uncovering the process underlying vocal sequence generation in animals may be critical to our understanding of the origin of language,» said lead author Arik Kershenbaum, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis.

Q: The film deals heavily with the origins of language.

This includes Latin, from the origins of the language until the Christian era.

Hence the fact that the titles, in Latin and thus harking back to the origins of language itself, are always related with the act of observing and the idea of boundary, in this way foregrounding the importance of attention.

These artworks are visual studies, not studies of writing in the strict sense or the origin of language.

The works on view at Michael Werner reveal the origins of this language: simple dots, lines and abstract forms as well as the stick figures that would repeatedly appear in subsequent works.

The title (purposely composed as an anagram) reflects the artist's fascination with the origins of language, both verbal language and the symbols used in written language.

Conceptually, however, the sculptures speak to the artist's pursuit to reveal the common human experience as communicated through the origins of language.

His works may include elements of symbolism and make references to the origins of language and interpersonal communication.