ANTH 170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Neural Pathway, Carl Wernicke, Australopithecus
23 Jan 2017
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It is extremely difficult to design ethical experiments with living children to pinpoint the ways in which they learn/acquire language. It is possible to find language itself in the fossil record: we are limited to observation, analysis, and speculation, using everything we known about anthropology and even drawing on related fields to try to solve these puzzles. Language is a specific human ability, which, once developed, was forever a part of the human (cid:271)rai(cid:374), for(cid:373)i(cid:374)g a (cid:862)la(cid:374)guage orga(cid:374)(cid:863), si(cid:373)ilar to other orga(cid:374)s i(cid:374) the (cid:271)od(cid:455). As a genera capacity first became possible in humans. How specific languages are acquired by contemporary human children. Although human infants may be born with unique linguistic abilities, it is social interaction that provides the context in which language is actually learned. Born into a speech community, a child will learn a language, discovering the specific details how to speak and use that language by interaction with the individuals who speak it.
