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From: cl596@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Petar Lazic)
Subject: language orgin...
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Sender: cl596@freenet3.carleton.ca (Petar Lazic)
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:58:40 GMT
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One thing that I am particularly interested in is language
origin; how humans came to posess a faculty for language. I
have noticed, though, that if I bring it up among other 
Linguists, I get met with a decidedly cool reception. Why is 
it that this topic verges on taboo?

	I know some linguists have done some work (Bickerton etc)
but most of them don't seem to have a great founding in 
evolutionary processes. Most theories That come from linguists
are not quite there as far as the evolution goes and most theories
done by Anthropologists show a lack of understanding of all
that having language entails.

I would be interested to hear what others think.
--
Petar Lazic				"Hell is other people."
cl596@freenet.carleton.ca			J.P. Sartre

