Connecting primate gesture to the evolutionary roots of language: A systematic review
| Autor: | António J. Santos, Evelina D. Rodrigues, Catherine Hobaiter, Joana Castro Pereira, Flávia Veppo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
Primates media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Language evolution biology.animal Animals Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Primate 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Nonhuman primates media_common Language Cognitive science Comparative psychology Modalities biology Gestures 05 social sciences Call to action Focus (linguistics) Animal Communication Domains Animal Science and Zoology Psychology Diversity (politics) Gesture |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| Popis: | Comparative psychology provides important contributions to our understanding of the origins of human language. The presence of common features in human and nonhuman primate communication can be used to suggest the evolutionary trajectories of potential precursors to language. However, to do so effectively, our findings must be comparable across diverse species. This systematic review describes the current landscape of data available from studies of gestural communication in human and nonhuman primates that make an explicit connection to language evolution. We found a similar number of studies on human and nonhuman primates, but that very few studies included data from more than one species. As a result, evolutionary inferences remain restricted to comparison across studies. We identify areas of focus, bias, and apparent gaps within the field. Different domains have been studied in human and nonhuman primates, with relatively few nonhuman primate studies of ontogeny and relatively few human studies of gesture form. Diversity in focus, methods, and socio‐ecological context fill important gaps and provide nuanced understanding, but only where the source of any difference between studies is transparent. Many studies provide some definition for their use of gesture; but definitions of gesture, and in particular, criteria for intentional use, are absent in the majority of human studies. We find systematic differences between human and nonhuman primate studies in the research scope, incorporation of other modalities, research setting, and study design. We highlight eight particular areas in a call to action through which we can strengthen our ability to investigate gestural communication's contribution within the evolutionary roots of human language. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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