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One major example that has stuck with me in the case of Nicaraguan Sign Language, which was spontaneously developed by a group of deaf schoolchildren. Wikipedia
by a-priori 18y ago
One major example that has stuck with me in the case of Nicaraguan Sign Language, which was spontaneously developed by a group of deaf schoolchildren. Wikipedia has an article on it, and Stephen Pinker discusses the phenomenon at length in his book The Language Instinct.
- lacker 18y agoYeah, but that doesn't show how language evolved, it just shows that language is innate in modern humans rather than a purely social construct.
- a-priori 18y agoThat's not what you asked. You asked for evidence that language "has been shown to emerge naturally". The case of NSL is such evidence.