Advantage Quote by Noam Chomsky

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop…

— Steven Pinker

I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent…

— Noam Chomsky

The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of our minds…

— Kumar Anupam

“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one…

— Noam Chomsky

All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved

— Casey Miller

There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but…

— Noam Chomsky

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and…

— Anton Chekhov

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution.…

— Noam Chomsky

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of…

— Harlan Lane

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

— Jane Wagner