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Beyond Anthropocentrism in Comparative Cognition: Recentering Animal Linguistics

Camille Coye
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Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
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Nathan Klinedinst
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We argue that the field of animal communication is excessively focused on hard-to-reconstruct relations between animal communication and human language. We propose that this research should be recentered on an animal 'linguistics', with four benefits: a comparative approach could give rise to a rich typology of animal languages; it could be extended with an evolutionary approach aiming at reconstructing mechanisms that are shared due to common descent vs. convergent evolution; it could revisit the significance (or lack thereof) of potential continuities between animal and human languages; and a detail-oriented and comparative approach could benefit from the expertise of linguists while eschewing weakly supported claims of similarity between animal and human languages.
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hal-04281503 , version 1 (13-11-2023)

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Philippe Schlenker, Camille Coye, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Nathan Klinedinst, Emmanuel Chemla. Beyond Anthropocentrism in Comparative Cognition: Recentering Animal Linguistics. Cognitive Science, 2022, 46 (12), ⟨10.1111/cogs.13220⟩. ⟨hal-04281503⟩
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