Reasonable Behavior and Language. Issue 1. Communicative Systems of Animals and Human Language

The collection contains extended texts of the reports of the round table participants "Communication of man and animals: Linguist"s view and biologist" (Moscow, 2007) A number of articles are devoted to the discussion of well-known and new results on the training of anthropoids" intermediaries" languages ​​and comparative analysis of the "language of talking" anthropoids" both with the language of a person and with developed communicative animal systems (bees, green monkeys, ants, etc), Analysis of instrument and communication of chimpanzees in natural conditions. The adjacent circle of topics includes: Cognitive models and mechanisms for the functioning of the language and thinking of a person, the influence of various factors for the assimilation of the child of the native language, the identification of unique inherent in the person constituting these mechanisms (recursive procedures, multi-level hierarchical structures of knowledge, the specifics of higher mental functions, the universal nature of human Language as a communicative system, etc) Another important topic is the evolution of signaling and zoosemic animal systems, the possibilities of transforming them into the "real" human language, discussion of criteria characterizing such a language.
A collection is addressed to linguists, psychologists, biologists and all interested in the circle of science about a person