Then a set of oral gestures specially involving the mouth developed in which the movements of the tongue, lips and so on where recognized according to patterns of movement similar to physical gestures.
First of all a set of physical gestures was developed as a means of communication. The Oral-Gesture Source The theory comes from the idea that there is a link between physical gesture and orally produced sounds. The importance of yo-heave-ho theory is that it places the development of human language in some SOCIAL CONTEXT. Examples : Ouch!, Ah!, Hey! 3 The Study of Language - George Yule Yo-heave-ho Theory The sounds of a person involved in physical effort could be the source of our language, especially when that physical effort involved several people and had to be coordinated. This view has been called “ bow-wow theory “ of language origin and these words echoing naturel sounds are called “ onomatopoeic words “ A similar suggestion : “ The original sounds of language came from naturel cries of emotion such as pain, anger and joy. “ The Natural Sound Source “ Primitive words could have been imitations of the naturel sounds which early men and women heard around them “ Examples : cuckoo, splash, bang, boom. 2 The Study of Language - George Yule The Divine Source The basic idea of the theory is that : “ If infants were allowed to grow up without hearing any language, then they would spontaneously begin using the original God-given language.
Yet we have no physical evidance relating to the speech of our ancestors and because of this absence of evidance speculations about the origins of human speech have been developed. We do not know that spoken language developed well before written language. The Study of Language - George Yule The Study of Language George Yule 1 The Study of Language - George Yule UNIT 1 THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE We simply do not know how language originated.
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