Evolution of Communicative Flexibility - Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication.
Evolution of Communicative Flexibility - Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communication.
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交流灵活性的演变——人类和动物交流的复杂性、创造力和适应性。
DOI：
10.7551/mitpress/9780262151214.001.0001
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
U. Griebel
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作者：
D. Oller;U. Griebel
人类交流的进化根源很难追溯，但最近的比较研究表明，进化史上的第一个关键步骤可能是建立了基本的交流灵活性——自由发声的能力与协调发声与交流意图的能力相结合。这本书的作者研究了一些物种（尤其是古人类）是如何摆脱“固定信号”的限制的，这种行为是为了交流而进化的，但缺乏语言的灵活性——例如，新生儿的哭声总是发出痛苦的信号，并且具有一种刻板的形式，不能被哭泣的婴儿改变。从根本上说，作者问的是什么是沟通灵活性，以及什么进化条件可以产生它。在这些章节中提供的叙述是值得注意的，因为它把语言起源的问题追溯到比许多以前的工作更早的进化时间。许多作者从灵长类动物的背景出发，讨论了原始人类谱系最早的交流中断；其他人则研究了灵活性的进化起源，例如鸟类和海洋哺乳动物。该卷的跨学科的理论观点阐明的问题是在这个主题的最新研究的前沿。Stephanie Barbu, Curt Burgess, Josep Call, lawrence Doyle, Julia Fischer, Michael Goldstein, Ulrike Griebel, Kurt Hammerschmidt, Sean Hanser, Martine Hausberger, Laurence Henry, Allison Kaufman, Stan kuzajj, Robert F. Lachlan, Brian MacWhinney, Radhika Makecha, Brenda McCowan， D. Kimbrough Oller, Michael Owren, Ron Schusterman, Charles T. Snowdon, Kim Sterelny, Benoit Teste, Gert Westermann
The evolutionary roots of human communication are difficult to trace, but recent comparative research suggests that the first key step in that evolutionary history may have been the establishment of basic communicative flexibility--the ability to vocalize freely combined with the capability to coordinate vocalization with communicative intent. The contributors to this volume investigate how some species (particularly ancient hominids) broke free of the constraints of "fixed signals," actions that were evolved to communicate but lack the flexibility of language--a newborn infant's cry, for example, always signals distress and has a stereotypical form not modifiable by the crying baby. Fundamentally, the contributors ask what communicative flexibility is and what evolutionary conditions can produce it. The accounts offered in these chapters are notable for taking the question of language origins farther back in evolutionary time than in much previous work. Many contributors address the very earliest communicative break of the hominid line from the primate background; others examine the evolutionary origins of flexibility in, for example, birds and marine mammals. The volume's interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives illuminate issues that are on the cutting edge of recent research on this topic.Stephanie Barbu, Curt Burgess, Josep Call, Laurance Doyle, Julia Fischer, Michael Goldstein, Ulrike Griebel, Kurt Hammerschmidt, Sean Hanser, Martine Hausberger, Laurence Henry, Allison Kaufman, Stan Kuczaj, Robert F. Lachlan, Brian MacWhinney, Radhika Makecha, Brenda McCowan, D. Kimbrough Oller, Michael Owren, Ron Schusterman, Charles T. Snowdon, Kim Sterelny, Benoit Teste, Gert Westermann