Functions of Language and Its Evolutionary Advantage to Humans (Essay Sample)

Functions of Language and Its Evolutionary Advantage to Humans
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Functions of Language and Its Evolutionary Advantage to Humans
Language leverages various purposes such as expressive and communicative functions of fear or delight, interpretive purposes used to restore cognitive functions. The Control functions such as a child crying for the mother to get her attention. Memory and thinking functions that include not using words or language but encoding experiences. The language functions prove how critical it is in the psychological development of humans. 
Social functions of language serve as a developmental status in social identity. Creative processes such as the control and regulation of humans’ cognitions evoke our creative imagination. Language acquisition is at least partly innate, or automatic and that we are born with a built-in universal grammar. The built-in acquisition mechanism allows humans to identify the basic dimensions of language. However, humans who have difficulties in speaking, such as highly autistic individuals or ones with specific learning disabilities, undergo numerous social world challenges. For instance, the disabilities lower their Intelligence quotient leading to poor performance in class works and work environments. Consequently, they tend to find it harder to get a mate or, on some occasions, choose not to, which puts them a