A bow-wow theory (or cuckoo theory) is any of the theories by various scholars, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder, on the speculative origins of human language. According to bow-wow theories, the first human languages developed from onomatopoeia, that is, imitations of natural sounds.
A bow-wow theory (or cuckoo theory) is any of the theories by various scholars, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder, on the speculative origins of human language. According to bow-wow theories, the first human languages developed from onomatopoeia, that is, imitations of natural sounds.
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