Psychological Aspects of Language Module Information

Introduction to Psycholinguistics that relate to language representation and development in

the mind
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Abstract

The evolutionary hypothesis (Vajda, 2015) states that language is a result of carefully
selected genetic mutations which led to the development of early humanoids into updated
versions of themselves with something called a Language acquisition devise or LAD
(Krashen S. D., 2008). In the process of evolution the LAD has endowed humanoids with a
voice box; the muzzle disappeared and made way for the tongue to work; the brain became
larger with more convolutions; the ears became smaller and more receptive for directional
reception and finally, the humanoids started to stay in groups. Communication was theorized
to have started when the first human beings started to stay in a group and they ran out of
arbitrary signs and gestures. They then started using their vocalizations for communication
and soon realized the potential.
The inventive hypothesis (Vajda, 2015) is by far, one of the most controversial definitions of
origin of language. It asks us to imagine of a situation where human beings literally
developed language without any basic map for creating one. It theorizes that man created
language when he needed it.