Dear Dr. Qwerty,
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The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying
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Joseph Soltis
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees/
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The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying
Joseph Soltis
National Institutes of Health
ABSTRACT: In this article I evaluate recent attempts to illuminate the
human infant cry from an evolutionary perspective. Infants are born into
an uncertain parenting environment, which can range from indulgent care of
offspring to infanticide. Infant cries are in large part adaptations that
maintain proximity to and elicit care from caregivers. There is not strong
evidence for acoustically distinct cry types, however, but infant cries
may function as a graded signal. During pain-induced autonomic nervous
system arousal, for example, neural input to the vocal cords increases cry
pitch. Caregivers may use this acoustic information, together with other
cues, to guide care-giving behavior. Serious pathology, on the other hand,
results in chronically and severely abnormal cry acoustics. Such abnormal
crying may be a proximate cause of adaptive infant maltreatment, in
circumstances in which parents cut their losses and reduce or withdraw
investment from infants with low survival chances.
An increase in the amount of crying during the first few months of life is
a human universal, and excessive crying, or colic, represents the upper
end of this normal increase. Potential signal functions of excessive
crying include manipulation of parents to acquire additional resources,
honest signaling of need, and honest signaling of vigor. Current evidence
does not strongly support any of these hypotheses, but the evidence is
most consistent with the hypothesis that excessive early infant crying is
a signal of vigor that evolved to reduce the risk of a reduction or
withdrawal of parental care.
KEYWORDS: colic, crying, early infant crying, honest signaling,
infanticide, parental care, parent-offspring conflict, separation call,
vocalization.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees/
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Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese?
by
Dean Falk
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
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Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese?
Dean Falk
Florida State University
ABSTRACT: In order to formulate hypotheses about the evolutionary
underpinnings that preceded the first glimmerings of language, mother-infant
gestural and vocal interactions are compared in chimpanzees and humans and
used to model those of early hominins. These data, along with
paleoanthropological evidence, suggest that prelinguistic vocal substrates
for protolanguage that had prosodic features similar to contemporary
'motherese' evolved as the trend for enlarging brains in late
australopithecines/early Homo progressively increased the difficulty of
parturition, thus causing a selective shift toward females that gave birth
to relatively undeveloped neonates. It is hypothesized that hominin mothers
adopted new foraging strategies that entailed maternal silencing,
reassuring, and controlling of the behaviors of physically removed infants
(i.e., that shared human babies' inability to cling to their mothers'
bodies). As mothers increasingly began to use prosodic and gestural markings
to encourage juveniles to behave and to follow, the meanings of certain
utterances (words) became conventionalized. This hypothesis is based on the
premises that hominin mothers that attended vigilantly to infants were
strongly selected for, and that such mothers had genetically based
potentials for consciously modifying vocalizations and gestures to control
infants, both of which receive support from the literature.
KEYWORDS: bipedalism; brain size; chimpanzees; foraging; gestures; hominins;
infant riding; motherese; prosody; protolanguage
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/
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Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese?
by
Dean Falk
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be
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this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows
the abstract and keywords below.
=======================================================================
=======================================================================
Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese?
Dean Falk
Florida State University
ABSTRACT: In order to formulate hypotheses about the evolutionary
underpinnings that preceded the first glimmerings of language, mother-infant
gestural and vocal interactions are compared in chimpanzees and humans and
used to model those of early hominins. These data, along with
paleoanthropological evidence, suggest that prelinguistic vocal substrates
for protolanguage that had prosodic features similar to contemporary
'motherese' evolved as the trend for enlarging brains in late
australopithecines/early Homo progressively increased the difficulty of
parturition, thus causing a selective shift toward females that gave birth
to relatively undeveloped neonates. It is hypothesized that hominin mothers
adopted new foraging strategies that entailed maternal silencing,
reassuring, and controlling of the behaviors of physically removed infants
(i.e., that shared human babies' inability to cling to their mothers'
bodies). As mothers increasingly began to use prosodic and gestural markings
to encourage juveniles to behave and to follow, the meanings of certain
utterances (words) became conventionalized. This hypothesis is based on the
premises that hominin mothers that attended vigilantly to infants were
strongly selected for, and that such mothers had genetically based
potentials for consciously modifying vocalizations and gestures to control
infants, both of which receive support from the literature.
KEYWORDS: bipedalism; brain size; chimpanzees; foraging; gestures; hominins;
infant riding; motherese; prosody; protolanguage
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/
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H i l a r y P u t n a m f i l o z ó f i á j a
The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam
Nemzetközi Filozófiai Konferencia Hilary Putnam részvételével
International Conference in Philosophy with the participation of Hilary Putnam
MTA Pécsi Akadémiai Bizottság Székháza
House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs
Pécs, Jurisics M. u. 44.
2003 május 5.-6.
May 5-6, 2003
Organization: János Boros, University Pécs
boros(a)btk.pte.hu
Monday, May 5, 2003
9.00-9.10 Opening
9.10-10.00 Opening Lecture
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore), Putnam, Pragmatism and
Truth
10.00-10.10 Break
10.10-12.20 Morning Session
Chair Michael Williams (Baltimore)
10.10-10.25
Zsolt Garai (Pécs-Paris), Varieties of therapeutical realism: McDowell and
Putnam
10.25-10.40
Andrea Clausen (Berlin), How to account for objectivity. Brandom?s
inferentialism vs. Putnam?s direct realism
10.40-10.55
Krisztián Pete (Pécs), Relativism cum Realism: is it a possible theory?
10.55-11.15 Discussion
11.15-11.30
Katalin Farkas (Budapest-London), Stopping short of the fact
11.30-11.45
Tadeusz Szubka (Lublin), Putnam on the viability of an epistemic conception of
truth
11.45-12.00
Matjaz Potrc (Ljubljana), Internal Realism
12.00-12.20 Discussion
12.20-15.00
Break - Lunch in Hotel Hunyor
15.00-18.00 Afternoon Session
Chair: Katalin Farkas (Budapest-London)
15.00-15.15
Tim Crane (London), Is the Mind a Thing?
15.15-15.30
Gyula Mezősi (Pécs), Is the strong supervenience thesis defensible?
15.30-15.45
György Kampis (Budapest), How to Be a Brain in a Vat and Why we are not
15.45-16.00
Ferenc Ruzsa (Budapest), Testing the Vat ? Talking about the Ding an sich
16.00-16.20 Discussion
16.20-16.40 Break
16.40-16.55
Ferenc Huoranszky (Budapest), Causation, Explanation and Internal Realism
16.55-17.10
István Danka (Pécs-Budapest), Rethinking non-mathematical necessity
17.10-17.25
András Máté (Budapest), First or second order logic? Putnam, Quine and the
Skolem-Argument
17.25-17.40
Bojan Borstner (Maribor), Putnam on properties
17.40-18.00 Discussion
18.00-18.30 Break
18.30-19.30 Evening Lecture
Hilary Putnam (Harvard), Objectivity without Objects
20.00
Dinner for the Participants at Pavlik Cellar (Pavlik Pince)
Pécs, Varjú dűlő 1. Phone 226 252
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
9.00-10.00 Morning Lecture
Ágnes Heller (New School, New York), Hilary Putnam on fact/value dichotomy
10.00-10.20 Break
10.20-12.30 Morning Session
Chair: Tim Crane (London)
10.20-10.35 Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore), Putnam?s
Wittgenstein
10.35-10.50 János Weiss (Pécs-Frankfurt), Putnam and Habermas
10.50-11.05 Jon Roberts (New York), Putnam, Truth and History: Reading the
Past Pragmatically
11.05-11.25 Discussion
11.25-11.40
László Tarnay and Tamás Pólya (Pécs), On Meaning Holism. Is Miscommunication
All We Have?
11.40-11.55
Richard Schantz (Berlin), Putnam on perception
11.55-12.10
János Tőzsér (Budapest), Is there a gap between the Mind and the World in
perception?
12.10-12.30 Discussion
12.30-15.00
Break - Lunch in Hotel Hunyor
15.00-18.00 Afternoon Session
Chair: Meredith Williams (Baltimore)
15.00-15.15
János Kelemen (Budapest), Linguistic Division of Labour: Putnam and
Rossi-Landi
15.15-15.30
László Komlósi (Pécs), Negotiated and Agreeable Inferences
15.30-15.45
Tibor Szolcsányi (Pécs), Experience, Descriptions and the Spectral Model of
Information
15.45-16.05 Discussion
16.05-16.20
Zsofia Zvolenszky (New York), The semantics of natural kind terms
16.20-16.35
Ferenc András (Pécs), The question, the possibility of the answer and the
answer
16.35-16.50
János Boros (Pécs), Internal realism is realism: Dewey and Davidson vs. Putnam
16.50-17.05
Csaba Pléh (Budapest)
17.05-17.20. Discussion
17.20-17.30 Conclusion
18.00 Take off for dinner in Villány, Blum Cellar (Blum Pince)
Villánykövesd, Pince sor 24. Phone (72) 493 088
Bus starts 18.00 from conference location, stops at 18.05 at Hotel Hunyor.
The conference is part in the series of the Pécs Philosophy Conferences.
Until today there were conferences with and about the following philosophers:
John McDowell, Pittsburgh, 1998
Daniel Dennett, Boston, 1999
Michael Williams, Baltimore, 1999
Robert Brandom, Pittsburgh, 2000
Jacques Derrida, Paris, 2000
Richard Rorty, Stanford, 2001
Ágnes Heller, New York and Budapest, 2002
A konferencia a Pécsi Filozófia Konferenciák sorozat része
Eddig az említett filozófusokról és filozófusokkal rendeztünk Pécsett
konferenciát.
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Hilary Putnam (born in Chicago, July 31, 1926) is one of the most important
thinkers of our time. 1927-34 he lived in Paris, where his father translated
works of Cocteau, Pirandello and Cervantes? Don Quichote in English. Graduate
studies 1948-49 in mathematics, logic, philosophy at Harvard among others by
Quine. Graduate studies at University of California in Los Angeles by Hans
Reichenbach. 1951 PhD by Reichenbach with the title The Meaning of the
Concept of Probablity in Application to Finite Sequences. Teaching positions
at Princeton, MIT, since 1965 professor of philosophy at Harvard University.
His works are among others
Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 1975
Meaning and the Moral Sciences, London, Routledge, 1978
Reason, Truth and History, Cambridge University Press, 1981
The Many Faces of Realism, La Salle, Open Court, 1987
Realism with a Human Face, Harvard University Press, 1990
Renewing Philosophy, Harvard Univesity Press, 1992
The Threefold Cord, Columbia University Press, 1999
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L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
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Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Tisztelettel meghívja Önt
H i l a r y P u t n a m (Harvard)
Objectivity without Objects
angol nyelvű előadására
2003 május 5 hétfő, 18.30h
Pécs, MTA Székház (PAB, Jurisics u.44.)
További információ: PTE BTK Filozófia Tanszékek
Tel. (72) 501 515
boros(a)btk.pte.hu
Hilary Putnam (born in Chicago, July 31, 1926) is one of the most important
thinkers of our time. 1927-34 he lived in Paris, where his father translated
works of Cocteau, Pirandello and Cervantes? Don Quichote in English. Graduate
studies 1948-49 in mathematics, logic, philosophy at Harvard among others by
Quine. Graduate studies at University of California in Los Angeles by Hans
Reichenbach. 1951 PhD by Reichenbach with the title The Meaning of the
Concept of Probablity in Application to Finite Sequences. Teaching positions
at Princeton, MIT, since 1965 professor of philosophy at Harvard University.
His works are among others
Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 1975
Meaning and the Moral Sciences, London, Routledge, 1978
Reason, Truth and History, Cambridge University Press, 1981
The Many Faces of Realism, La Salle, Open Court, 1987
Realism with a Human Face, Harvad University Press, 1990
Renewing Philosophy, Harvard Univesity Press, 1992
The Threefold Cord, Columbia University Press, 1999
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924
Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
The Philosophy Department and the Humanities Center cordially invite you to a public lecture by
Hilary Putnam (Harvard University)
Friday, 9. May, 5.00 PM - Popper Room
"Ethics Without Metaphysics"
Chair: Howard Robinson, CEU Philosophy Department
Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions -- a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu