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Studying language evolution in the age of big data 研究大数据时代的语言进化
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-06-08 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZY004
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Nancy Retzlaff, Damián E. Blasi, W. Bruce Croft, Michael Cysouw, D. Hruschka, I. Maddieson, Lydia Müller, E. Smith, P. Stadler, George Starostin, Hyejin Youn
The increasing availability of large digital corpora of cross-linguistic data is revolutionizing many branches of linguistics. Overall, it has triggered a shift of attention from detailed questions about individual features to more global patterns amenable to rigorous, but statistical, analyses. This engenders an approach based on successive approximations where models with simplified assumptions result in frameworks that can then be systematically refined, always keeping explicit the methodological commitments and the assumed prior knowledge. Therefore, they can resolve disputes between competing frameworks quantitatively by separating the support provided by the data from the underlying assumptions. These methods, though, often appear as a ‘black box’ to traditional practitioners. In fact, the switch to a statistical view complicates comparison of the results from these newer methods with traditional understanding, sometimes leading to misinterpretation and overly broad claims. We describe here this evolving methodological shift, attributed to the advent of big, but often incomplete and poorly curated data, emphasizing the underlying similarity of the newer quantitative to the traditional comparative methods and discussing when and to what extent the former have advantages over the latter. In this review, we cover briefly both randomization tests for detecting patterns in a largely model-independent fashion and phylolinguistic methods for a more model-based analysis of these patterns. We foresee a fruitful division of labor between the ability to computationally process large volumes of data and the trained linguistic insight identifying worthy prior commitments and interesting hypotheses in need of comparison.
跨语言数据的大型数字语料库的日益可用性正在颠覆语言学的许多分支。总的来说,它引发了人们的注意力从关于个体特征的详细问题转移到更全局的模式,这些模式可以进行严格但统计的分析。这产生了一种基于逐次逼近的方法,其中具有简化假设的模型产生了可以系统地细化的框架,始终保持明确的方法承诺和假设的先验知识。因此,他们可以通过将数据提供的支持与基本假设分开,在数量上解决竞争框架之间的争议。然而,这些方法对传统从业者来说往往是一个“黑匣子”。事实上,向统计学观点的转变使这些新方法的结果与传统理解的比较变得复杂,有时会导致误解和过于宽泛的说法。我们在这里描述了这种不断演变的方法论转变,归因于大量但往往不完整且策划不当的数据的出现,强调了新的定量方法与传统比较方法的潜在相似性,并讨论了前者在何时以及在多大程度上比后者具有优势。在这篇综述中,我们简要介绍了以很大程度上独立于模型的方式检测模式的随机化测试和对这些模式进行更基于模型的分析的分类方法。我们预见到,在计算处理大量数据的能力和经过训练的语言洞察力之间将进行富有成效的分工,以确定有价值的先前承诺和需要比较的有趣假设。
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引用次数: 13
What smartphone apps may contribute to language evolution research 哪些智能手机应用程序可能有助于语言进化研究
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-06-04 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZY005
O. Morin, James Winters, Thomas F. Müller, T. Morisseau, Christian Etter, Simon J. Greenhill
Unlike a standard online experiment, a gaming app lets participants interact freely with a vast number of partners, as many times as they wish. The gain is not merely one of statistical power. Cultural evolutionists can use gaming apps to allow large numbers of participants to communicate synchronously; to build realistic transmission chains that avoid the losses of information that occurs in linear chains; to study the effects of partner choice as well as partner control in social interactions. We are releasing an app designed to take advantage of these opportunities and generate realistic language evolution dynamics.
与标准的在线实验不同,游戏应用程序可以让参与者与大量合作伙伴自由互动,随心所欲。增益不仅仅是统计能力的一部分。文化进化论者可以使用游戏应用程序让大量参与者同步交流;建立现实的传输链,避免线性链中出现的信息丢失;研究伴侣选择和伴侣控制在社会交往中的作用。我们正在发布一款应用程序,旨在利用这些机会,生成真实的语言进化动态。
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引用次数: 8
Of Tongues and Men: A Review of Morphological Evidence for the Evolution of Language 语言与人:语言进化的形态学证据综述
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZY001
Lou Albessard-Ball, A. Balzeau
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引用次数: 6
Ancient DNA and language evolution: A special section 古代DNA和语言进化:专区
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZX024
A. Benítez‐Burraco, D. Dediu
About a year or so ago, prompted by what seemed (and still does) to be a flood of new methods and findings stemming from the extraction, analysis and interpretation of more and more ancient genomes, both from archaic (Neanderthals and Denisovans) and modern (but long dead) humans, we thought that it is becoming necessary to have a collection of papers looking into the implications for language origins and evolution. Thus, the idea of a special issue on ancient DNA emerged, we dully contacted groups and individual scientists working on these issues, and we soon had an impressive lineup of contributors and contributions. However, due to the extremely dynamic nature of the field and the multiple constraints to which our contributors have to face, we decided to rather have a continuously running series of ‘special sections’ containing contributions touching upon these issues as they arrive, instead of waiting for all contributions to be assembled into a dedicated ‘special issue’. The first four contributions follow, ranging from setting the wider background to focusing on specific genes, and touching not only on ancient DNA but also on genetic data from living humans and even on the archeological and paleoanthropological record. The papers originate from well-known groups and scientists and, despite their diversity, they contribute to setting the foundations for the proper, contextualized, and nuanced interpretation of the new findings that are bound to continue coming, as well as suggesting new methods, data sources and interpretative frameworks that should help our field advance. We begin with Hayley Susan Mountford and Dianne Newbury, geneticists with long-term interests in language at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, whose ‘The Genomic Landscape of Language Disorders: Insights into Evolution’ provides the necessary background for discussing the genetic foundations of language and speech and the interpretation of data from ancient genomes. Their conclusion that ‘[w]e are only just beginning to unravel the highly complex developmental processes that underlie speech in modern humans, and should be extremely cautious in extrapolating any findings into hominins’, far from being pessimistic, must instead form the backbone for any attempts at linking genetics (not only ancient) to theories of language origins and evolution. In ‘What aDNA can (and cannot) tell us about the emergence of language and speech’, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall, a molecular systematics/comparative genomics expert and a palaeoanthropologist with a long history of work on language origins with the American Museum of Natural History in New York, join forces to discuss the questions that ancient DNA may (and may not) answer when it comes to language origins and evolution, to militate for properly placing such findings against the background provided by paleoanthropology and archeology, and to propose an actual method for identifying genes that may be involved in the evolution o
大约一年前,由于对越来越多的古人类(尼安德特人和丹尼索瓦人)和现代人(但早已死亡)的基因组进行提取、分析和解释,似乎(现在仍然如此)涌现出了大量新方法和新发现,我们认为有必要收集一些研究语言起源和进化含义的论文。因此,关于古代DNA的特刊的想法出现了,我们沉闷地联系了研究这些问题的团体和个人科学家,很快我们就有了一个令人印象深刻的贡献者和贡献。然而,由于该领域的极端动态性质和我们的贡献者必须面对的多重限制,我们决定宁愿有一个持续运行的系列“特殊部分”,其中包含涉及这些问题的贡献,而不是等待所有的贡献被集合成一个专门的“特殊问题”。接下来是前四项贡献,从设定更广泛的背景到关注特定基因,不仅涉及古代DNA,还涉及活人的遗传数据,甚至涉及考古和古人类学记录。这些论文来自知名的团体和科学家,尽管它们的多样性,但它们为对新发现的适当的、情境化的和细致入微的解释奠定了基础,这些新发现必然会继续出现,同时也提出了新的方法、数据来源和解释框架,这些建议应该有助于我们的领域发展。我们从Hayley Susan Mountford和Dianne Newbury开始,他们是英国牛津布鲁克斯大学对语言有长期兴趣的遗传学家,他们的“语言障碍的基因组景观:洞察进化”为讨论语言和语音的遗传基础以及对古代基因组数据的解释提供了必要的背景。他们的结论是“我们才刚刚开始揭示现代人类语言背后高度复杂的发展过程,在将任何发现推断为古人类时都应该非常谨慎”,这绝不是悲观,而是必须成为任何将遗传学(不仅仅是古代)与语言起源和进化理论联系起来的尝试的支柱。在“关于语言和言语的出现,aDNA能(和不能)告诉我们什么”中,Rob DeSalle和Ian Tattersall,一位分子系统学/比较基因组学专家和一位在纽约美国自然历史博物馆长期从事语言起源研究的古人类学家,联手讨论了古代DNA在语言起源和进化方面可能(也可能不能)回答的问题。为了将这些发现与古人类学和考古学提供的背景相结合,并提出一种实际的方法来识别可能参与语言和言语进化的基因。《SRGAP2和现代人类语言能力的逐渐进化》是由巴塞罗那大学的语言学家和认知科学团队撰写的,他们对语言进化做出了重要贡献。该团队专注于一个特定的基因,SRGAP2,并基于多种证据,包括其进化史和它所参与的分子途径,认为它可能在声音的进化中发挥了作用
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引用次数: 0
The genomic landscape of language: Insights into evolution 语言的基因组景观:对进化的洞察
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZX019
H. Mountford, D. Newbury
Studies of severe, monogenic forms of language disorders have revealed important insights into the mechanisms that underpin language development and evolution. It is clear that monogenic mutations in genes such as FOXP2 and CNTNAP2 only account for a small proportion of language disorders seen in children, and the genetic basis of language in modern humans is highly complex and poorly understood. In this review, we examine why we understand so little of the genetic landscape of language disorders, and how the genetic background of an individual greatly affects the way in which a genetic change is expressed. We discuss how the underlying genetics of language disorders has informed our understanding of language evolution, and how recent advances may obtain a clearer picture of language capacity in ancient hominins.
对严重的单基因语言障碍的研究揭示了支持语言发展和进化的机制的重要见解。很明显,FOXP2和CNTNAP2等基因的单基因突变只占儿童语言障碍的一小部分,而现代人类语言的遗传基础是高度复杂且知之甚少的。在这篇综述中,我们研究了为什么我们对语言障碍的遗传景观了解如此之少,以及个体的遗传背景如何极大地影响遗传变化的表达方式。我们讨论了语言障碍的潜在遗传学如何影响我们对语言进化的理解,以及最近的进展如何使我们对古人类的语言能力有了更清晰的了解。
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引用次数: 29
The role of pantomime in gestural language evolution, its cognitive bases and an alternative 哑剧在手势语言进化中的作用、认知基础及其替代
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZX021
E. Abramova
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引用次数: 12
A statistical model for the joint inference of vertical stability and horizontal diffusibility of typological features 类型学特征垂直稳定性和水平扩散性联合推断的统计模型
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZX022
Yugo Murawaki, Kenji Yamauchi
A major pursuit within the study of language evolution is to advance understanding of the historical behavior of typological features. Previous studies have identified at least three factors that determine the typological similarity of a pair of languages: (1) vertical stability, (2) horizontal diffusibility, and (3) uni-versality. Of these factors, the first two are of particular interest. Although observed data are affected by all three factors to a greater or lesser degree, previous studies have not jointly modeled them in a straightforward manner. Here, we propose a solution that is derived from the field of cultural anthropology. We present a simple and extensible Bayesian autologistic model to jointly infer the three factors from observed data. Although a large number of missing values in the dataset pose serious difficulties for statistical modeling, the proposed model can robustly estimate these parameters as well as missing values. Applying missing value imputation to indirectly evaluate the estimated parameters, we quantitatively demonstrated that they were meaningful. In conclusion, we briefly compare our findings with those of previous studies and discuss future directions.
语言进化研究的一个主要目标是促进对类型学特征的历史行为的理解。先前的研究已经确定了至少三个决定语言类型学相似性的因素:(1)垂直稳定性,(2)水平扩散性,(3)普遍性。在这些因素中,前两个尤其令人感兴趣。虽然观测到的数据或多或少地受到这三个因素的影响,但以前的研究并没有以一种直接的方式联合建模。在这里,我们提出了一个源自文化人类学领域的解决方案。我们提出了一个简单的、可扩展的贝叶斯自定义模型,从观测数据中共同推断出这三个因素。尽管数据集中大量的缺失值给统计建模带来了严重的困难,但所提出的模型可以鲁棒地估计这些参数以及缺失值。应用缺失值法间接评价估计的参数,定量地证明了它们是有意义的。最后,我们将研究结果与以往的研究结果进行了简要的比较,并对未来的研究方向进行了讨论。
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引用次数: 22
In support of the role of pantomime in language evolution 支持哑剧在语言进化中的作用
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZX023
M. Arbib
I thank Ekaterina Abramova (2018) for using my Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) of ‘how the brain got language’ as the grounding for her thoughtful critique of pantomime. In her abstract, she asserts that ‘the notion of a pantomime [in MSH] presupposes two sophisticated abilities that themselves are left unexplained: symbolization and intentional communication’. She offers ontogenetic ritualization (OR) as ‘an alternative mechanism that can lead to a suitably complex language precursor while avoiding pantomime altogether’ (emphasis added). I will defend the merits of pantomime while showing that OR is better regarded as a complement to pantomime than as a plausible replacement.
我要感谢叶卡捷琳娜·阿布拉莫娃(2018),她将我的“大脑如何获得语言”的镜像系统假说(MSH)作为她对哑剧进行深思熟虑的批评的基础。在她的摘要中,她断言“(在MSH中)哑剧的概念预设了两种无法解释的复杂能力:符号化和有意交流”。她提出个体发生仪式化(OR)作为“一种替代机制,可以导致适当复杂的语言前兆,同时完全避免哑剧”(强调添加)。我将为哑剧的优点辩护,同时表明手术室被更好地视为哑剧的补充,而不是一个合理的替代品。
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引用次数: 7
Different kinds of parsimony: association-learning versus bodily mimesis 不同种类的节俭:联想学习与身体模仿
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZY003
J. Zlatev
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引用次数: 1
Scala naturae: The impact of historical values on current ‘evolution of language’ discourse Scala的本质:历史价值对当前“语言进化”话语的影响
IF 2.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/JOLE/LZX017
Robert Ullrich, Moritz Mittelbach, K. Liebal
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引用次数: 2
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