In the beginning: A review of Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky's Why Only Us [0.03%]
万物有灵：评Robert C. Berwick和Noam Chomsky的Why Only Us一书
Michael Studdert-Kennedy,Herbert Terrace
Michael Studdert-Kennedy
We review Berwick and Chomsky's Why Only Us, Language and Evolution, a book premised on language as an instrument primarily of thought, only secondarily of communication. The authors conclude that a Universal Grammar can be reduced to three...
Divergent acoustic properties of gelada and baboon vocalizations and their implications for the evolution of human speech [0.03%]
Gelada和狒狒鸣叫的声学性质差异及其对人类语言进化的意义
Morgan L Gustison,Thore J Bergman
Morgan L Gustison
Human speech has many complex spectral and temporal features traditionally thought to be absent in the vocalizations of other primates. Recent explorations of the vocal capabilities of non-human primates are challenging this view. Here, we ...