The Language Phenomenon - Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia
The Language Phenomenon - Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia
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语言现象——从毫秒到千年的人类交流
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10.1007/978-3-642-36086-2_6
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2013
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Kirby S
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Kirby S
Maynard Smith和Szathmáry（1995）提出了生命进化史中的一系列重大转变。他们的工作为思考复制提供了一个丰富的框架。他们从这个角度确定了语言的重要性，但语言在不止一种意义上是一种新的复制系统：它既是无限遗传的文化复制因子的推动者，也是一种新的进化系统。迭代学习是语言传递的过程，它既推动了语言的变化，也推动了向新的语言系统的过渡。通过将语言视为一个进化系统，我们得到的最大回报可能是能够将生物学家对生命进化的见解应用于语言的进化。
Maynard Smith and Szathmáry (1995) propose a series of major transitions in the evolutionary history of life. Their work provides a rich framework for thinking about replication. They identified the importance of language in this light, but language is a new system of replication in more than one sense: it is both an enabler of cultural replicators with unlimited heredity, and also a new kind of evolutionary system itself. Iterated learning is the process of linguistic transmission, and it drives both language change and the transitions to qualitatively new kinds of linguistic system. By seeing language as an evolutionary system, the biggest payoff we get may be the ability to take biologists’ insights into the evolution of life and apply them to the evolution of language.