The study sample of non-professionals was selected on the basis of the geographic origin, language spoken and religion in order to reflect the demographic profile of the Luton's South Asian population.
The two basic and mutually exclusive positions maintained, on the one hand, as Schlegel portrays them, that human language must have originated as a transcription, representation or imitation of external objects; and on the other, that in its origin language must have been purely sensual, i.e. a mere form of expression of emotions through sounds.
Ancient Italic people, any of the peoples diverse in origin, language, traditions, stage of development, and territorial extension who inhabited pre-Roman Italy, a region heavily influenced by neighbouring Greece, with its well-defined national characteristics, expansive vigour, and aesthetic and intellectual maturity.
In its origin, language most likely was richly symbolical.
In other words, Schlegel maintains that, in its origin, language was poetry (SW VII, 104).
She's the author of Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language, and a specialist in the origins of human language development.
"Another major effect would be on demographic composition in terms of national origin, language, education, religion, race/ethnicity, etc".
In spite of this teleological account of the origin of language, however, he also regards language as something that came about without planning (planlos).
Given that primate alarm calling systems have played an important role in the language origin debate, identifying geographic variation in primate alarm calls and understanding the underlying causal mechanisms are important steps to help uncover evolutionary precursors to language.
