The Origin of Language.

نویسنده

  • E L Thorndike
چکیده

NOBODY knows when, where or how speech originated, and I am stepping in where wise scholars in linguistics and psychology fear to tread. My colleagues in psychology will, I beg, permit this divagation into speculation by one who has labored long in the less exciting fields of experiment and statistics. I ask and expect no mercy from experts in linguistic science, but only that they build a better theory on the ruins they make of mine. We must first glance at three time-honored and then dishonored theories, now known by these opprobrious

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 98 2531  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1943