[Dave] Agreed. All I'm saying is since language more than likely emerged such a long, long, long, long, time ago and leaves no discernable traces its unlikely that we will ever nail down exactly when. How do you excavate a sound? Time machine, right?
[Krimel] The two avenues of excavation that seem most promising to me are phylogeneticially, by looking at the social and communicative practice of our closest primate relatives. And ontogenetically, in terms of the development of communicative practices in infants and young children. In either case I think it is a safe conclusion that humans, as humans, have never been without language. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
