Contributors: Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN); Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC); École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL); Department of Linguistics; New York University New York (NYU); NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU); Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et psycholinguistique (LSCP); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Animal Ecology; Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University Utrecht; New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP); City University of New York New York (CUNY); Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; Columbia University New York; Ethologie animale et humaine (EthoS); Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN); Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); School of Psychology & Neuroscience; University of St Andrews Scotland; Instituto de Pesquisa Bicho do Mato; Departamento de Ciências da Natureza; Institut universitaire de France (IUF); Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.); Laboratoire de zoologie et de biologie animale Cocody, Abidjan; Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (UFHB); CEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision (CEREMADE); Université Paris Dauphine-PSL; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Université de Neuchâtel = University of Neuchatel (UNINE); ANR-10-IDEX-0001,PSL,Paris Sciences et Lettres(2010); ANR-10-LABX-0087,IEC,Institute of Cognitive Studies of Ecole normale superieure(2010)
نبذة مختصرة : International audience ; We explain why general techniques from formal linguistics can and should be applied to the analysis of monkey communication – in the areas of syntax and especially semantics. An informed look at our recent proposals shows that such techniques needn’t rely excessively on categories of human language: syntax and semantics provide versatile formal tools that go beyond the specificities of human linguistics. We argue that “formal monkey linguistics” can yield new insights into monkey morphology, syntax, and semantics, as well as raise provocative new questions about the existence of a pragmatic, competition-based component in these communication systems. Finally, we argue that evolutionary questions, which are highly speculative in human language, can be addressed in an empirically satisfying fashion in primate linguistics, and we lay out problems that should be addressed at the interface between evolutionary primate linguistics and formal analyses of language evolution.
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