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The choice between the prevailing theory and Renfrew's depends on whether one accepts a “wave” theory, first promulgated more than a hundred years ago by Johnanes Schmidt, a German linguist, or one of indigenous development.
(As a linguist friend of mine once wearily conceded, Everything depends on the context.)
)? Identified by early feminist linguist Robin Lakoff, women's frequent use of tag endings has been both discounted by some but not all empirical studies and re-examined by other studies that distinguish different kinds of tag endings used by men and women.
According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.
If one asks a professional linguist why he doesn't say things like He don't or spell pursuant persuant, the reply is likely to be, He don't is not part of my speech pattern, and I simply do not spell pursuant that way.