Anthropology › Section F · Language and communication › Topic F.1
The emergence and development of language
Every human society has language, and any healthy baby can learn any of the world's roughly 7,000 languages. How did this capacity arise, what makes it different from animal communication, and how do children master it so quickly?
In this topic
- Born ready for any language
- Communication versus language
- Animals and apes
- The body behind speech
- Tools, gestures and symbols
- How children acquire language
- Sign languages
- Worked example: a brand-new sentence
- Worked example: weighing the evidence
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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