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从个体心灵到语言的协同演化：跨文化及跨物种交流系统的协同演化

From Individual Minds to Language Co-Evolution: Psychological Mechanisms for the Evolution of Cross-Cultural and Cross-Species Communication Systems

  本次特刊旨在探讨个体心理对不同语言变体共同演化和物种间交流的共同影响，将心理学实验研究的兴趣重新引向语言演化问题。欢迎以下几个方面的实证研究来稿：（1）经典语言接触现象的认知心理解释；（2）脑间机制在跨语言交流中的作用。研究问题包括：跨语言感知、双语词典、语言单位的记忆巩固、语言习得以及脑间互动。待探讨的语言现象包括：社会及个人的双语和多语现象、口音、跨语言互懂度、跨物种交流以及语言浮现。鼓励采用新的实验范式，行为和神经科学实验方法皆可。

征稿启事 Call for Papers

Tracing back to the 19-century Neogrammarians and Dyer’s (1971) bilingual Stroop experiment respectively, language evolution and the psychology of cross-linguistic behaviours both have long empirical research histories. Recent works have also shown inspiring findings on the psychological basis of inter-species communication, for instance, the involvement of mirror system during inter-species communication, and behavioural findings regarding domestic animals’ usage of acoustic cues in the comprehension of human speech. Nevertheless, many questions remain open regarding how the micro-level interaction of individual minds can collectively influence larger-scale cross-linguistic phenomena, such as human language contact, and the co-evolution of human and animal communicative systems.

  Seventy years after the 1951 Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in Psychology and Linguistics at Cornell University, this Research Topic aims to bring psychological investigation closer to the evolutionary linguistic traditions again and investigate the psychological basis for language co-evolution. Linguistic phenomena to be investigated include social and individual bi- and multi-lingualism, accents, mutual intelligibility between languages, interspecies communication, and language emergence. Psychological entry points include cross-linguistic perception, the bilingual lexicon, memory consolidation of linguistic units, language acquisition, and cross-brain interaction. Novel experimental paradigms are encouraged, and both behavioural and neuroscientific measurements are welcomed.

  We aim to have a collection of empirical studies addressing the collective influences of individual minds on the co-evolution of different linguistic varieties as well as inter-species communications. This Research Topic welcomes empirical studies addressing (but not limited to) the following two research questions:
  1. Psychological explanations for classical language-contact phenomena, e.g., the cognitive basis for the emergence and social establishment of loanwords, intergenerational and within-peer transmission of accents, and the psychological influence of individuals’ long- and short-term bilingual experiences on natural sound change (e.g., chain shift, near merger, and lexical diffusion). The relevant works can compare individuals from different linguistic communities with various socio-linguistic profiles and/or use settings to simulate real-world language contact in the experiments.

  2. The role of cross-brain mechanisms in cross-linguistic human and/or interspecies communication. In recent years, researchers have uncovered rich cross-linguistic and cross-individual variation and asymmetry in the mutual intelligibility phenomenon between human languages as well as across species. Neural measurements have also been introduced into interactive paradigms to investigate human social interactions. New paradigms can be used to study human linguistic interactions as well as interspecies communications. The comparison between humans and animals may contribute to the discussion on the role of biological and cultural evolutions in human language emergence. The relevant works can involve behavioural and/or neuroscientific findings comparing human and animal communitive processing revealed in within- and inter-species communications.

Image credit: Artwork by Ying Zheng

Keywords: Inter-species Communication, Language, Co-evolution, Cross-cultural Communication, Collective Behaviour

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华东师范大学语言认知与演化实验室

Laboratory of Language Cognition and Evolution, East China Normal University

香港科技大学

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

莱顿大学

Leiden University

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