Communication

In this article we offer a detailed assessment of current approaches to the origins of language, with a special focus on their historical and theoretical underpinnings. It is a widely accepted view within evolutionary linguistics that an account of the emergence of human language necessarily involve...

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Autores: Balari, Sergio|||0000-0002-2531-2161, Lorenzo González, Guillermo|||0000-0003-0821-281X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Communication
Evolution of language
Functions of organic structures
Homology
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spelling Communicationwhere evolutionary linguistics went wrongBalari, Sergio|||0000-0002-2531-2161Lorenzo González, Guillermo|||0000-0003-0821-281XCommunicationEvolution of languageFunctions of organic structuresHomologyIn this article we offer a detailed assessment of current approaches to the origins of language, with a special focus on their historical and theoretical underpinnings. It is a widely accepted view within evolutionary linguistics that an account of the emergence of human language necessarily involves paying special attention to its communicative function and its relation to other animal communication systems. Ever since Darwin, some variant of this view has constituted the mainstream version in evolutionary linguistics; however, it is our contention in this article that this approach is seriously flawed, and that "animal communication" does not constitute a natural kind on which a sound theoretical model can be built. As a consequence, we argue that this communicative perspective is better abandoned in favor of a structural/formal approach based on the notion of homology, and that some interesting and unexpected similarities may be found by applying this venerable comparative method founded in the 19th century by Richard Owen. 22010-01-0120102010-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/116747https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1162/BIOT_a_00049reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest material està protegit per drets d'autor i/o drets afins. Podeu utilitzar aquest material en funció del que permet la legislació de drets d'autor i drets afins d'aplicació al vostre cas. Per a d'altres usos heu d'obtenir permís del(s) titular(s) de drets.https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1167472026-06-06T12:50:31Z
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where evolutionary linguistics went wrong
title Communication
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Balari, Sergio|||0000-0002-2531-2161
Communication
Evolution of language
Functions of organic structures
Homology
title_short Communication
title_full Communication
title_fullStr Communication
title_full_unstemmed Communication
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Lorenzo González, Guillermo|||0000-0003-0821-281X
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Lorenzo González, Guillermo|||0000-0003-0821-281X
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Evolution of language
Functions of organic structures
Homology
topic Communication
Evolution of language
Functions of organic structures
Homology
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