Question
Discuss the views on the development of language.
Solution
There are several views on language development:
(1) that hominid language involved gestures or hand movements;
(2) that spoken language was preceded by vocal but non-verbal communication such as singing or humming;
(3) that human speech probably began with calls like the ones that have been observed among primates.
(4) Humans may have possessed a small number of speech sounds in the initial stage. Gradually, these may have developed into language
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