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SUMMARY:Josh Armstrong - The Social Origins of Universal Grammar
DESCRIPTION:Josh Armstrong: UCLAContemporary linguistic theory takes the generative features of language use as a central focus of study. Many linguists—most notably Noam Chomsky—have maintained that explaining these generative features of language requires an appeal to a human language faculty or a universal grammar: a biologically guided\, species-typical\, set of cognitive procedures for building linguistic meanings in ways that are highly creative but also highly constrained. My talk explores the evolutionary origins of universal grammar. I will argue that contemporary human individuals are indeed biologically prepared for language in ways that Chomsky and others have maintained\, but that an explanation of why this is so is inexorably bound up with social facts and processes. There are\, I argue\, substantive social prerequisites on initial biological emergence of universal grammar and on the subsequent persistence and spread of universal grammar across human or hominin populations. This social conception of the evolution of universal grammar integrates internal and external approaches to linguistic theory and provides a straightforward explanation of the generative features of language use.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/josh-armstrong-the-social-origins-of-universal-grammar/
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SUMMARY:Cailin O'Connor - Dynamics of Equity
DESCRIPTION:Cailin O’Connor: University of California IrvineWhy do some groups get more and others less? And why is this sort of pattern so pervasive across human cultures? In this talk\, I’ll discuss cultural evolutionary modeling work that address these questions. In particular\, I look at the dynamics of bargaining and coordination in cultural evolution when groups are divided into social categories such as gender and race. These models make clear why inequity is so common\, and also suggest an approach towards improving equity.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/cailin-oconnor-dynamics-of-equity/
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SUMMARY:Robert Seyfarth - The social origins of language
DESCRIPTION:Robert Seyfarth: University of PennsylvaniaDespite their differences\, human language and the vocal communication of nonhuman primates share many features. Both constitute a form of joint action\, rely on similar neural mechanisms\, and involve discrete\, combinatorial cognition. These shared features suggest that during evolution the ancestors of modern primates faced similar social problems and responded by evolving similar systems of perception\, communication and cognition. When language later evolved from this common foundation\, many of its distinctive features were already in place.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/robert-seyfarth-the-social-origins-of-language/
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