PPT-The cultural evolution of language in the lab

Kenny Smith Department of Psychology Northumbria University The general approach Language is sociallylearned Languages evolve to facilitate their transmission Consequences Adaptation to biases of language learners. Tim Roufs. © 2010-2014. www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/aftexts.html#title. Diet and Evolution:. What Did Hominines Eat?. ca. . 7 – 1.8 . mya. . Tim Roufs. © 2010-2014. u. se your up/down arrow keys and/or . Classroom. By. . Rebecca Torres Valdovinos. My Story. “Psychologists investigating perception are increasingly insistent that what is perceived depends upon the observer’s perceptual frame of reference”. . Jordan Zlatev. Lecture 9. Controversies and hypotheses. 1. Controversies. What is language (again!)?. When language evolved?. How it evolved. ?. Why it evolved. ? . (Lecture 10). Can language evolution be divided in “stages”? Which? . Anthropological Theory. Anthropological Theory . More than 2,000 societies have been described in anthropological literature. Theoretical orientation: . general attitude about how cultural phenomena are to be explained; influences what aspects of life observer focuses on. Cultural Evolution. This is the transmission of knowledge from generation to generation.. Knowledge is stored in the memory, and in written or pictorial form.. Culture is the verbal and written transmission of ideas, beliefs, customs and values of individuals and societies.. Recall . ANTHROPOLOGY . Definition:. The scientific study of hominids and human culture over time . Focus on:. On hominids/humans as members of a species or cultural group. On humankind as a species, throughout time; . Peter J. Richerson. With thanks to Robert Boyd. Talk to Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Cooperation and Human Systems Design, March 26, 2009. Cultural Evolution Is Darwinian: Culture is a population level process. Higher Education’s New Foreign Language Requirement. “It is useful in education to continually ask ourselves . whether or not our methods are getting us closer to our goals.” . (Shaw, 1999, p. 325). to . Language Evolution: Contact, competition and change. Salikoko S. Mufwene. University of Chicago. Language Endangerment: From . The Ecology of Language Evolution. to date. … still an embarrassing subject matter for linguistics. Classroom. By. . Rebecca Torres Valdovinos. My Story. “Psychologists investigating perception are increasingly insistent that what is perceived depends upon the observer’s perceptual frame of reference”. . on how language might have evolved gradually Pinker 2003 continues to argue that humans were equipped by the coevolutionary process with specialized innate mechanisms to manage language acquisition Description and Consequences. Supplementary Notes and Basic Definitions. Paul Ballonoff. 1,. *, . 1. Ballonoff Consulting, Paul@Ballonoff.net; . *. Corresponding author: Paul@Ballonoff.net. 1. Results and Discussion. HSP3C. Ms. . Maharaj. What is Anthropology?. . Anthropology is the broad study of . humankind. . around the world and throughout time. . . It is concerned with both the . biological and the cultural aspects of humans.. Murmu. Associate Professor. Dept. . of . Anthropology, . Utkal. University. NEO-EVOLUTIONARY SCHOOLS . Emerged in Early 20. th. century. Universal. Evolutionism. Multilinear. Evolutionism. V. GORDON CHILDE .