How Language Began by Daniel L. Everett

Author:Daniel L. Everett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liveright

* One of the best descriptions of the disaster of aphasia is discussed in The Man Who Lost His Language, an outstanding book by Sheila Hale, about her husband John Hale’s stroke. John was a famous historian, knighted for his contributions to British scholarship, Chair of the Trustees of the National Gallery and author of brilliant books, including The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. John’s stroke-induced aphasia in effect transformed him back into the languageless infant he was at the beginning of his life. The tragic story (and indictment of the British National Health Service) is nevertheless a brilliant, touching, insightful account of this terrible deficit.

† This is reminiscent of what linguist Derek Bickerton refers to as ‘protolanguage’. As I have remarked many times, however, I reject Bickerton’s term here because it suggests (at least to me) that erectus’s language was known not to be a fully human language, whereas I consider erectus’s language fully developed, not merely a precursor to modern language.

‡ Paraphrased from the National Institutes of Health website www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/autism/conditioninfo/Pages/symptoms.aspx

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