Abstract

JOFFILY, Sylvia Beatriz. Driving source of sound-language in men: an exploratory study. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.3, pp. 62-68. ISSN 1806-5821.

Since ancient times and in all civilizations men share with their ancestrals the desire to know details of their origin. The need to immerse in the early days of its existence, born with the first mental reflection lights, is so powerful that spreads over different areas of scientific knowledge. One of the great enigmas of the human species refers to the origin of its symbolic oral language. This essay discusses some of the main findings of etymologic and cognitive neuropsychology studies in order to track the first stages of a probable origin of sound language in men. Based on cognitive neuropsychology theories, we track back the moment when the human language was only a set of gestures and shared sounds and the "motor accident" that had instantiated the conscious oral communication in men. The etymological search of an ancient Indo-European root, the eis has explicited the primordial motor sense of countless modern words. Considered by etymologists, due to this breadth and complexity, one of the most extensive and ancient linguistic roots, the "eis" represents the driving force that ruled the nomads behavior. © Cien. Cogn. 2010; Vol. 15 (3): 062-068.

Keywords : motor-language; sound-language; etymology; cognitive neuropsychology.

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