Why don't chimps talk and humans sing like canaries?
Författare
Summary, in English
We focus on two problems with the evolutionary scenario proposed: (1) It bypasses the question of the origins of the communicative and semiotic features that make language distinct from, say, pleasant but meaningless sounds. (2) It does little to explain the absence of language in, for example, chimpanzees: Most of the selection pressures invoked apply just as strongly to chimps. We suggest how these problems could possibly be amended.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2006
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
287-288
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volym
29
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Ämne
- Learning
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1469-1825