交流：动物踏上句法之路？

Communication: Animal Steps on the Road to Syntax?

机构信息

Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK.

Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, University Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.

出版信息

Curr Biol. 2017 Aug 7;27(15):R753-R755. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.066.

DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.066

PMID:28787604

Abstract

From tool use to teaching, proto-forms of 'human traits' are being discovered in animals. But what of language? New evidence suggests that a garden bird has hopped on the long road to syntax, an integral component of language.

摘要

从使用工具到教学，动物身上正在发现“人类特征”的原始形式。但语言呢？新的证据表明，一种园林鸟类已经踏上了通往句法的漫长道路，句法是语言的一个组成部分。