Although there is a lack of clear evidence, people have come up with various theories about the origins of language. One recent theory is that human beings have evolved in ... a way that we are programmed for language from the
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The truth ... nobody really knows how language first began.
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From studies, we know that ... children are isolated from human contact and have not learnt to construct sentences before they are ten, it is doubtful they will ever do so.
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Research has shown, if ... else, that language is a social activity.
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Language âĶ well be programmed into the brain but people still need stimulus from others around them.
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Did we all start talking at around the same time ... of the manner in which our brains had begun to develop?
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One recent theory is that human beings have evolved in (...) a way that we are programmed for language from the moment of birth. In âĶ words, language came about as a result of an evolutionary change in our brains at some stage.
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One likely possibility is that language is well be programmed into the brain but, âĶ this, people still need stimulus from others around them.
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Research has shown that language is a social activity, not something invented ... isolation.