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The evolution of language
In these videos some experts talk about the origin and evolution of language, why it is important, for what people use it and how people use it. They also contain good examples of ways of communication
One of the theories of mind is complex social relationships: abilities associated with modern humans expressed with language.
Richard Dawkins points out that people don't know when language started, but it allowed humans to survived in an easier way and to get succeed. Then, humans who had the best physical skills and the best social abilities would be the ones who survived. They only need a community to improve the language and to share information.
Language is used to change information about for example how to do things, talk about the past and the future and teach children. But surprisingly, two out of three parts of the conversations are used to gossip and not only humans are able to communicate with other humans.
There is a huge difference between the way of communication of apes and the way of communication of humans. People can communicate and get information of things that they did not see. However, apes only can get the information of the things that they saw.
But not only other species cannot communicate in the same way that people use to do it. Mary No Name is a deaf woman who was isolated all her life. She communicate by gestures, but she cannot talk about a lot of things. If she had acquired language when she was a child (critical period) or even when she was a teenager, she could communicate better with people.
Because of her story, some experts decided to open an association to teach children with the same problem to communicate with a stablished code of signs and to prevent them to be isolated. However, the kids could not learn this code.
In spite of not learning this code, they started to communicate each others with another successful code of signs created by themselves. This example shows people that they don’t need voice to communicate and that language is on our legacy.
There are around 6300 languages over the world and all of them depend on some complex rules called syntax to organise information: tell a story, a lie... The way that Mary No Name communicate has not syntax and that is why she cannot build sentences.
Could you tell me about my mistakes in this text and how do you write them?
Thank you, very much!!
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prefixess and suffixes
Hi everyone!
Today, I have taken some notes in one of my classes (syntax) but I am doubting in this words:
1. Strawberry: I don't really know if this word has a prefix (straw-)
2. Blackboard: in this case I think this is a derivational word ''black-board'', but one of my mates thinks that ''black'' is the prefix
Could you help me?
Have a nice weekend! =)
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Could we use pretty, beautiful and handsome for man and woman?
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What is the difference between lonely and alone?
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English in my country
Nowadays English is too important to get a job, meet people from other countries and more, but are Spanish people learning this language as well as they should?
Until some years ago, Spanish children and teenagers only had one subject at school and highschool and the only learned reading and writing. They didn't listen and speak enough in English, but since more or less 2008 all of the lessons at a lot of schools and highschools are in English... is it good for our children?
On one hand, the learn a lot of English since they are little children and that's great because this is the best time to learn a secondary language and they would be able to speak of a lot of things in English.
On the other hand, if they are learning all the subjects in English maybe the won't know a lot of vocabulary in Spanish like for example vocabulary of the anamtomy, technology and others, so maybe the won't be improving their Spanish as well.
From my point of view it's really important to get by in English, but it's important to maintein the native language too.
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English in my country
Nowadays English is too important to get a job, meet people from other countries and more, but are Spanish people learning this language as well as they should?
Until some years ago, Spanish children and teenagers only had one subject at school and highschool and the only learned reading and writing. They didn't listen and speak enough in English, but since more or less 2008 all of the lessons at a lot of schools and highschools are in English... is it good for our children?
On one hand, the learn a lot of English since they are little children and that's great because this is the best time to learn a secondary language and they would be able to speak of a lot of things in English.
On the other hand, if they are learning all the subjects in English maybe the won't know a lot of vocabulary in Spanish like for example vocabulary of the anamtomy, technology and others, so maybe the won't be improving their Spanish as well.
From my point of view it's really important to get by in English, but it's important to maintein the native language too.
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