Chapter 2. The evolution and the rise of human language

Savage‐Rumbaugh, E. Sue; Fields, William M.

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“…Infants are born helpless and their embodiment, in contrast to chimpanzees and bonobos, results in social forms of interaction and thus in different developmental pathways. There is a lot more to be said here (see, e.g., Reddy, 2011 , 2018 ; Savage-Rumbaugh and Fields, 2011 ; Dahl, 2017 ), but we will focus on forms of relations beginning at the end of the first year of life.…”

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“…Their biological embodiment links them to their environment, and it also creates the social environment in which they develop. For example, human infants’ helplessness requires that they be cared for, and this results in a social–emotional context for their development (e.g., Portmann, 1990 ; Savage-Rumbaugh and Fields, 2011 ). Infants’ neurological development is shaped by this social experience (e.g., Carpendale and Lewis, 2021 ).…”

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From action to ethics: A process-relational approach to prosocial development

Carpendale

Wallbridge

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Explaining how children first become active prosocial and then later moral agents requires, we argue, beginning with action and interaction with others. We take a process-relational perspective and draw on developmental systems theory in arguing that infants cannot be born knowing about prosociality or morality or anything else. Instead, they are born with emerging abilities to act and react. Their biological embodiment links them to their environment and creates the social environment in which they develop. A clear distinction between biological and social levels cannot be made in the context of ongoing development because they are thoroughly interwoven in a bidirectional system in which they mutually create each other. We focus on infants’ emerging ability to interact and develop within a human developmental system, and prosociality and morality emerge at the level of interaction. Caring is a constitutive aspect of the forms of experience in which infants are embedded in the process of becoming persons. Infants are immersed in a world of mutual responsiveness within caring relationships that are infused with concern, interest, and enjoyment. In such a developmental system, infants become persons when they are treated as persons.

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From action to ethics: A process-relational approach to prosocial development

Carpendale

Wallbridge

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

Abraham¹

2020

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What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.

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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

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From action to ethics: A process-relational approach to prosocial development

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