Human language from the perspective of tool evolution (an introduction to (sub-)substrate language research)
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About the Author:
Ecaterina PLEȘCA 
cerc.
Institutul de Filologie „Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” al USM
E-mail: ecaterina.plesca[@]sti.usm.md
Abstract: In this article we have proposed to extract data, however brief, about the human language in prehistory, namely in the Paleolithic Age, the era of the formation of the human biological being, but also the era of the constitution of human language. In the absence of written records for this historical period, the data regarding the language can only be abductive, obtained on the basis of interdisciplinary research of the data held by the related sciences. The reference to tools allowed us to trace how human language evolved and how it helped humans to evolve. Language, however, determined the rise of human beings. This fact can be observed in the production and use of tools, since the production of tools with the help of other tools testifies to the capacity of the brain to think up inventions through language. And based on the composition of the tool kit, the techniques and technologies applied in their creation, we can hypothetically assess the presence of term-words through which they must have been designated. Even more, we can assess the emergence of terminologies. This study presents a written synthesis based on works from related fields.
Keywords: human language, speech, Paleolithic Age, related sciences, interdisciplinary research