A biological infrastructure for communication underlies the cultural evolution of languages

被引：8
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作者：
de Ruiter, J. P. [1 ]
Levinson, Stephen C. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Max Planck Inst Psycholinguist, NL-6500 AH Nijmegen, Netherlands
来源：
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES | 2008年 / 31卷 / 05期
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D O I：
10.1017/S0140525X08005086
中图分类号：
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号：
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要：
Universal 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 the compute mappings between arbitrary signals and communicative intentions. This underlies the development of language in the human species.
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