{"id":763,"date":"2025-11-21T09:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/?p=763"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:38:47","slug":"what-enables-human-language-a-biocultural-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"What enables human language? A biocultural framework"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arnon_et_al_2025_accepted_version.pdf\">Arnon, I., Carmel, L., Claidi\u00e8re, N., Fitch, W. T., Goldin-Meadow, S., Kirby, S., . . . Fisher, S. E. (2025). What enables human language? A bio-cultural framework. Science.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine_cropped-1024x601.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine_cropped-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine_cropped-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine_cropped-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine_cropped.jpg 1157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of language evolution. The approach is multifaceted, seeing language emergence as dependent on the<br>convergence of multiple capacities, each with their own evolutionary trajectories. It is explicitly biocultural, recognizing and incorporating the importance of both biological preparedness and cultural transmission as well as interactions between them. We demonstrate this approach through three<br>case studies that examine the evolution of different facets involved in human language (vocal production learning, linguistic structure, and social underpinnings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnon, I., Carmel, L., Claidi\u00e8re, N., Fitch, W. T., Goldin-Meadow, S., Kirby, S., . . . Fisher, S. E. (2025). What enables human language? A bio-cultural framework. Science. Abstract: Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/?p=763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What enables human language? A biocultural framework&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolas.claidiere.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}