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Origin of Language - Summary

Many religions provide an account of the origin of language. Since the 1960s, the theory of grammar has come to be dominated by the ideas of Noam Chomsky. For Chomsky, the central question of linguistics is the nature of the innate biological endowment which enables humans to acquire a language so rapidly and efficiently in the first years of life. Language is both a cultural phenomenon and also the most salient distinguishing characteristic of modern homo sapiens as a species. A recent discovery has been evidence for a relationship between inherited language impairment and a specific gene in humans: the so‐called FOXP2 gene. For one thing, it is found also in the DNA of many other species. Its role in language is at best indirect, and many other genes are relevant to the normal maturation of language in humans.