How Language Began | Dan Everett | TEDxSanFrancisco
really don’t amount to much. Language is the most difficult thing of all to learn. It’s an incredibly long, frighteningly difficult process. At eighteen months old, hardly anything we babble is intelligible. And yet we keep on trying all day long. It’s enough to get you down, but we never give it up. No one ever says: “Language, that’s really not m
... See moreDavid Bessis • Mathematica
This is also why some languages tend to become predominant over others: whenever a network of people is well connected, they need a single protocol to communicate. That’s called a language. The more people interact, the more they need a single language to do so, and the more a main language prevails. This is why English will become the lingua franc... See more
Uncharted Territories • Platforms and Aggregators
Talking is an activity unique to Homo sapiens , our species
Richard Futrell • When Was Talking Invented? A Language Scientist Explains How This Unique Feature of Human Beings May Have Evolved
Lewicki took this as evidence for the theory that human speech evolved to make best use of the existing encoding scheme of the auditory system.9
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
