The Recruitment Theory of Language Origins
The Recruitment Theory of Language Origins
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语言起源的招募理论
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2007
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L. Steels
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关于语言的起源和进化这一令人着迷的问题，最近已经取得了巨大的进展（例如，见（55）、（7）、（9）、（31））。目前还没有被广泛接受的完整理论，但有几个建议已经摆在桌面上，观察和实验正在进行中。本章重点介绍我们已经探索了近十年的语言起源补充理论。该理论认为，语言使用者招募和尝试不同的策略来解决交际任务，并保留那些最大限度地提高交际成功和认知经济的策略。每一种策略都需要特定的认知神经机制，这些机制本身有着广泛的用途，因此可能是独立于语言而进化或学习的。
Tremendous progress has been made recently on the fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language (see e.g. (55), (7), (9), (31)). There is no widely accepted complete theory yet, but several proposals are on the table and observations and experiments are proceeding. This chapter focuses on the recruitment theory of language origins which we have been exploring for almost ten years now. This theory argues that language users recruit and try out different strategies for solving the task of communication and retain those that maximise communicative success and cognitive economy. Each strategy requires specific cognitive neural mechanisms, which in themselves serve a wide range of purposes and therefore may have evolved or could be learned independently of language.