Human/animal communications, language, and evolution

The Evolution of Communications

China is now entering a new era of marketing. Two dramatic changes are occurring: 1) The Internet is becoming a “virtual living place;” and 2) Corporations are transforming into service-oriented enterprises. The Creative Communications Management (CCM) theory is born from the IMC theory. It proposes a change from “communication is marketing” to “communication is management,” encouraging corpora...

Language Evolution and Change

Language and Gesture Evolution

Music, evolution and language.

Darwin (1871) noted that the human musical faculty 'must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed'. Indeed, previous research with human infants and young children has revealed that we are born with variable musical capabilities. Here, the adaptive purpose served by these differing capabilities is discussed with reference to comparative findings regarding the acoustic beha...

Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution

Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain-general mechanisms. This paper draws out the implications of this viewpoint for understanding the problem of language acquisition, which is cast in a new, and much more tractable, form. In essence, the child faces a pro...