A biological infrastructure for communication underlies the cultural evolution of languages
de Ruiter, J. P.; Levinson, Stephen C.; de Ruiter J. P.; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Levinson Stephen C.; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Журнал:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Дата:
2008
Аннотация:
AbstractUniversal Grammar (UG) is indeed evolutionarily implausible. But if languages are just “adapted” to a large primate brain, it is hard to see why other primates do not have complex languages. The answer is that humans have evolved a specialized and uniquely human cognitive architecture, whose main function is to compute mappings between arbitrary signals and communicative intentions. This underlies the development of language in the human species.
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