Chomsky writes of ‘internal language’ (I-language) as the fundamental basis of human symbolic thought with communication merely a byproduct 1, 7.
A common theme among those who argue for the sudden emergence of language is that it signaled a change in the manner of thought itself. Thus, Tattersall writes that from about 100 000 years ago ‘we start finding plausible indications that members of the new species were starting to think symbolically’ [5]. Chomsky writes of ‘internal language’ (I-language) as the fundamental basis of human symbolic thought with communication merely a byproduct 1, 7. It is, then, through a secondary process of