WE DEVELOP SPEECH – WE DEVELOP INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

The problem of the relationship between intellect (and in the narrow sense, thinking) and speech is one of the most important at the present time. This relationship is scientifically substantiated from a psycholinguistic point of view. Thought can neither arise, nor proceed, nor exist outside of language, outside of speech. We think in words that we pronounce out loud or say to ourselves, that is, thinking occurs in speech form. The more deeply and thoroughly a thought is thought out, the more clearly and distinctly it is expressed in words, in oral and written speech. And vice versa, the more the verbal formulation of a thought is improved and honed, the clearer and more understandable this thought itself becomes. Thus, thinking is a socially conditioned, inextricably linked with speech, mental process of searching for and discovering something essentially new, a process of mediated and generalized reflection of reality in the course of its analysis and synthesis.