What is language?

Here are some different statements about language:

- "Language surrounds us every day and we know how to recognise it" 

 

- "A word is one or more sounds that in combination have a specific meaning assigned by the language"

 

- "The most powerful tool known is the one we use to build every other tool"

I think that the statements are all true because language is a very important tool that let us all communicate, and without communication, the problem in the story of the tower of Babel  will happen to us.

History of Language

Here is a video about history of language and some questions bellow

1) Why is it said that people in East Africa develop more than the rest?
    
because they develop a better language.


2) What happened to the earlier language on the Earth?
 
the ancients languages have been erased and historians confirm that their trace were lost.


3) Accoring to Dr. Johanna Nichols, what were the first utterances made by Humans?


The first utterances consist of things that were transactionally between calls and words. Maybe that calls appear against the need to talk or to take the attention of others.

How we learn language?

Here is a mind map that shows different points of view of different scientists in relation with  how we learn language

Class Debate

In the class debate we discussed about how children learn language, there where some very interesting points of view from different groups and some very good arguments

Language and Parole

 Which comes first? Thought or Language?

In my opinion, language comes first because when we think about something, we hear a little voice in our head, that's why language comes first but in a complementing way.