comparative linguistics, and to a deeper and more inclusive understanding of not only the agentivity of non-human animals but also of important notions in (socio)linguistics like grammar, language, sociality, meaning-making, gender and sexuality, power dynamics, repertoire, and the observer's ...
What, exactly, makes humans human? A close look at nonhuman animal domestication practices reveals how people came to view their own uniqueness in western cultural process. The study of domestication across time shows the multiple human impulses underlying acts of animal enclosure and domestication. ...
Such parallels have established birdsong as the animal model system for vocal learning for comparison with human speech.doi:10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/00830-0M. NaguibK. Riebelencyclopedia of language & linguisticsNaguib, M, Riebel, K Bird song: a key model in animal communication. In: Brown, K...
This means that it is still an open question whether a difference in the rule- learning and rule abstraction abilities between animals and humans played the key role in the evolution of language. The complexity of human language structure has given rise to fundamental questions regarding the ...
We discuss the nature of each of the components, suggest how they may interact, and compare the three-component human system with the two-component system of other species. 展开 关键词: Animal Cognition Communication Context Language Linguistics ...
language with an infectious curiosity.If you are interested in this review, you may also like to listen/watch a recording of Charles Taylor’s lecture, ‘Democracy, Diversity, Religion’, recorded at LSE on 1 December 2015.To be human is to sometimes wonder what that entails, and to what ...
(Sect.1), we will introduce the extended cognition thesis, exposing its anthropocentric bias. Then, we will show that humans and many non-human animals rely on the same cognition-extending strategies. To do so, we will discuss a variety of case studies, including “intrabodily” cognitive ...
discuss later, it has been observed only in a small number of instances among animals and even then in a somewhat remedial – perhaps qualitatively different – form from that seen in humans. In the context of human language, ‘syntax’ refers to the rules that describe the construction of ...
Exceptional performance—i.e., the performance of outliers in individual variability—is a well-known, established phenomenon that is also present in various human activities such as music, mathematic and linguistics (e.g.3). Since Galton’s monograph Hereditary Genius4, the origins of individual ...
Language evolution is a hotly debated topic. However, our ability to investigate it is severely limited due to a multitude of factors, most prominently the lack of valid methods and techniques. One approach has been to study the communication of non-human animals and, specifically, of our clos...