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The bow-wow theory proposed that early human language originated from imitating natural sounds like animal vocalizations. It suggests the first words were attempts to mimic surrounding noises and over time these imitations took on meanings. However, the theory is now considered too simplistic as it only explains onomatopoeic words and not the complexity of language, while also lacking historical evidence and failing to account for most vocabulary beyond a small set of sound-symbolic words.

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