Quer pasticciaccio brutto de l’origine del linguaggio umano

• Main Author: Salottolo Delio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it 2013-12-01
• Series: S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it
• Subjects: Language
• Online Access: http://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/03_Dossier-1.pdf

There was a time when the study on the origin of human verbal language caused scandals and prohibitions, as in 1866 when the Société de Linguistique de Paris forbade to present contributions on this issue. Nowadays, instead, this is one of the more controversial and widely studied topics, as if this question would hide some additional value, something that deals with the deep meaning of mankind and with its place in the world. Thus, since fossils can’t speak, and even the monkeys, which are so close to us, do not seem to have any intention to do it, biologists, neuroscientists, palaeontologists, and philosophers discuss about it.