THE MOST IMPORTANT HYPOTHESES ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
In this article it is discussed the critical analysis of the hypotheses on the origin of language including the old ones (the onomatopoetic hypothesis, the hypothesis of sound symbolism, the in- terjectional hypothesis, the labour hypothesis) and the new ones (N. Chomsky, T. Givon, N. Masa- taka, T. Deacon, R. Dunbar).