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DUNEDIN
SECOND EDITION
THE MAKING
OF LANGUAGE
Mike Beaken
The Making of Language
The Making of Language
Mike Beaken
DUNEDIN
Published by
Dunedin Academic Press Ltd
Hudson House
8 Albany Street
Edinburgh EH1 3QB
Scotland
ISBN 978-1-906716-14-1
© 2011 Mike Beaken
The right of Mike Beaken to be identified as the author of this book has been asserted by
him in accordance with sections 77 & 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Contents
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1: The Story so Far 1
Neglect and rediscovery 1
Soviet tradition 3
The search for proto-languages 4
Chomsky and Universal Grammar 6
The end of Universal Grammar? 7
Variety in languages 7
Recursion 8
Mathematics and recursion 9
Long-distance WH-movement 9
Templates 9
How children learn language 10
Darwin and language origins 12
Problem of biological reductionism 14
Animal communication 14
Languages and ‘descent with variation’ 16
Genetics 18
Brains and language 19
Children’s brains and language 23
Brain plasticity 25
Finally 25
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viii Contents
Introduction
Since the first edition of this book in 1996 there have been some far-reaching
changes in attitudes to the topic of language origins. One of the reasons I gave for
writing this book in the first place was the intrinsic interest of the topic. While
the record of fossils and of tools and artefacts is absolutely silent on the issue of
language, the topic gives rise to so many questions that it calls in all areas of lin-
guistics, as well as archaeology, anthropology, psychology and even musicology.
Some of the changes in attitudes are welcome. Fifteen years ago the theory of
Universal Grammar was fairly widely accepted among linguists, though less so
among archaeologists and hardly at all among anthropologists. Nowadays the
notion of innate properties of mind has come to seem less and less an explana-
tion for the mysteries of language, and more and more a cover for ignorance.
There are other changes in ideas about language origins, many of which
encouragingly confirm the views in the first edition, such as
▶▶ the idea that language has had a long and gradual development rather than
a sudden appearance on the scene;
▶▶ the idea that gesture was an early form of communication, before speech
was physically possible;
▶▶ the idea that there is not really that big a gap between animal and human
communication;
▶▶ the idea that language is related to the activity of human beings;
▶▶ the idea that language changes in line with social developments;
▶▶ the idea that music is relevant to the origins of language and of human
society;
▶▶ the idea that Neanderthals had a form of language just as effective as that
of their contemporary humans;
▶▶ the idea that the major difference between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon
humans was cultural, not physical or cognitive;
▶▶ the idea that the Upper Palaeolithic period in Europe did not represent a
‘human revolution’.
xiii
xiv Introduction
examine physical differences between us and the other apes, the smaller these
differences turn out to be. So how to explain what is and what is not human? The
only way out of this dilemma is to look outside of our corporeal bodies, at the
way humans interact with each other, working together and building commu-
nities. Human languages, after all, can only exist in communities. The numerous
sad cases of children growing up without human contact and therefore without
language show this clearly.
Luckily, the notion of Universal Grammar, a name given to the idea that all
humans have ‘hard-wired’ within them a unique capacity for language, is starting
to look distinctly frayed at the edges. Better still, a number of researchers cur-
rently active in the field of language are starting to produce findings that accord
with the materialist views of the inspiring writers I have mentioned above—
writers like Tomasello, those in the integrationist school of linguistics, functional
linguists in the school of Michael Halliday, and many others whose work I have
tried to draw on in producing this revised edition. To them all, much thanks.
Mike Beaken
Sheffield March 2010
Notes
1 Briffault 1931, 2004.
2 Morgan 1963.
3 See Kenneally 2007, p. 55.
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