基于认知科学的语言“文化进化”解释

A Cultural Evolutionary Account of Language Based on Cognitive Science

语言“基因进化”解释将认知内化于人脑,忽略了语言进化过程中大脑内部与外部的协调互动作用。认知科学相关领域的最新实证研究,在消解语言基因进化解释核心假说的同时,为新的语言“文化进化”解释提供了证据支持。文化进化解释以外部选择压力与内部进化适应、神经发育与文化发展、自我驯化与语言进化等三个维度的互动,揭示了语言结构的文化进化过程及其内在机制,充分契合了认知科学观的转换,为语言进化的神经生物学研究开辟了新的方法论路径。

The genetic evolutionary account of language internalizes cognition in human brain,ignoring the coordinated interaction between the interior and exterior of the brain during language evolution.The latest empirical research of cognitive science dispels the core hypothesis of genetic evolutionary account and supports the cultural evolutionary account of language.The new account of language evolution reveals the internal mechanism of the cultural evolutionary process of language from the interaction of three dimensions:external selection pressure and internal evolutionary adaptation,neural development and cultural development,self-domestication and language evolution,opening up a new methodological path for the neurobiological study of language evolution.