On Quantitative Comparative Research in Communication and Language Evolution.
On Quantitative Comparative Research in Communication and Language Evolution.
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10.1007/s13752-014-0186-7
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2014-09
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Griebel U
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Oller DK;Griebel U
人类语言和自然动物交流的定量比较需要改进的概念化。我们认为，一个基础设施的发展和演变的方法，包括一个扩展的解释之间的施事，取效和意义的区别，可以帮助把相关的问题定量比较的角度。这种方法可以照亮围绕着应用于报警电话，例如在黑长尾猴的功能性指称的概念的争议。我们认为，指称提供了一个穷人点的定量比较语言和野生动物交流。有证据表明，即使是新生儿的人类哭可以被认为是显示功能的指称性，根据通常援引的标准，在动物交流中的指称性的倡导者。探索施事的思想的本质，我们说明了动物的沟通系统和人类语言之间的共性的一个重要领域，一个共同点，打开了大门，更富有成效的，可量化的比较。最后，我们描绘了两个例子的基础设施的沟通能力，应该特别适合直接定量比较人类和我们的近亲。
Quantitative comparison of human language and natural animal communication requires improved conceptualizations. We argue that an infrastructural approach to development and evolution incorporating an extended interpretation of the distinctions among illocution, perlocution, and meaning can help place the issues relevant to quantitative comparison in perspective. The approach can illuminate the controversy revolving around the notion of functional referentiality as applied to alarm calls, for example in the vervet monkey. We argue that referentiality offers a poor point of quantitative comparison across language and animal communication in the wild. Evidence shows that even newborn human cry could be deemed to show functional referentiality according to the criteria typically invoked by advocates of referentiality in animal communication. Exploring the essence of the idea of illocution, we illustrate an important realm of commonality among animal communication systems and human language, a commonality that opens the door to more productive, quantifiable comparisons. Finally, we delineate two examples of infrastructural communicative capabilities that should be particularly amenable to direct quantitative comparison across humans and our closest relatives.