Anything that has occurred after the invention of writing.
What is history.
100
They invented the first type of writing.
What is the Sumerians.
100
How many years ago do people believe humans developed language?
What is 50,000 to 100,000 years ago.
100
These are the 6 origin of language theories.
What is Divine Source, Natural Sound, Social Interaction, Physical Adaptation, Tool-making, and Genetic.
100
The criticism of this theory is that you cannot prove or disprove that it happened this way, and that the original language is impossible to replicate.
What is Divine Source Theory
200
Anything that occurred before the invention of writing.
What is prehistory
200
This is a symbol that stands for an object.
What is a pictograph.
200
This provides some evidence for humans developing language.
What is cave paintings depicting daily life and describing stories.
200
Where do nearly all divine source theories believe language came from?
What is from their Creator, or a monogenetic source.
200
The criticism of this theory states that animals such as birds can produce human-like sounds as well.
What is Physical Adaptation Theory
300
This aided historians in understanding hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone
300
This is a symbol that stands for a sound.
What is a phonogram.
300
How is the tongue able to let you produce a wide variety of sounds?
What is it is small, flexible, and muscular which enables it to reach a wider range of spots in your mouth to make sounds.
300
This is the theory that believes because humans live in groups and need to communicate with each other they developed language.
What is Social Interaction Theory
300
The criticism of this theory describes that language is more than just a set of names, and how could you provide words for abstract things.
What is Natural Sound Theory
400
How did the discovery of the Rosetta Stone help historians decipher hieroglyphics?
What is it was written in Ancient Greek and Ancient Hebrew , which scholars could read and understood. By using those known languages they were able to figure out what the symbols of the hieroglyphics meant.
400
They created the first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians
400
These are the letter sounds your teeth allow you to make.
What is f and v
400
This is the theory that believes humans developed language from replicating the sounds they heard around them.
What is Natural Sound Theory
400
The criticism for this theory discusses the idea that primates and other animals are social yet lack the ability to produce a language.
What is Social Interaction Theory.
500
Understanding a culture's language.
What is the first step in understanding a culture.
500
What was the effect of having an alphabet?
What is it made being able to read and write easier and allowed people to become literate.
500
These are the letter sounds your lips allow you to make.
What is p and b.
500
This is the theory that believes language is "hard-wired" into all newborn humans.
What is Genetic Theory
500
People left children out in isolation to determine if they could produce the "original language", what did they discover?
What is the children only produce sounds that they grew up hearing, and do not speak the "original language"