进化心理学视野下的语言起源观

The Language Origin Concept in Evolutionary Psychology

关于语言的起源存在着众多的假说,进化心理学认为,语言的出现是人类长期进化与自然选择的必然结果。在语言进化发展的道路上,由于人类狩猎-采集者祖先的发音器官、神经系统的进化发展以及群体合作的出现,才使语言起源前期"非有声分节语言"的"动物本能性语言"和"手势语言"得以进化发展为语言起源期的"有声分节语言"。因而,进化心理学把语言的起源归结为人类种族在"过去"长期的进化发展中,在生存和繁殖的压力下,由心理机制和外在环境的双重作用而形成的一种适应性产物。

The origin of language has several hypotheses , however, in evolutionary psychology the occurrence of language is the inevitable result of the long-term evolution of mankind and natural selection. On the developing road of language evolutionary, because of the evolution of speech organs and because of the occurrence of group cooperation of human hunting-gatherers ancestral , Animal instinct language and sign language of non - language audio sub-section in early language of origin could be evolved to Language audio sub-section in origins of Language. In evolutionary psychology the origin of language is summed up as an adaptability produced by pychological mechanism and external environment under the pressure of survival and reproduction in human beings＇ past long-term evolution.