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研究拠点形成事業『自然言語の構造と獲得メカニズムの理解に向けた研究拠点形成』１２月期セミナーに併せて、人文学研究科と脳情報通信融合研究センター（CiNet）がマサチューセッツ工科大学の宮川繁先生をお招きして、先生の最新の研究成果をもとに「言語進化」についてお話しいただきます。使用言語は英語です。
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Shigeru Miyagawa
　Professor of Linguistics, MIT
　Visiting Professor of Biosciences, University of São Paulo
　Executive Advisor, Research Center for Super Smart Society, Seikei University

*Lecture 2 (December 16, 16:10 JST):

“What can monkeys teach us about the origin of human language?”

Human language is thought to be unique to H. sapiens (Darwin, Chomsky). However, it is difficult to imagine that a system as complex as language arose completely independently of our closest relatives such as chimpanzees and bonobos. Using research on primate communication systems as well as neuroscientific studies of the human brain, I will propose, following Miyagawa and Clarke (2019), that binarity, which is a fundamental property of human language, can be traced back to the monkey system of communication.

This is a collaboration with the São Paulo Excellence Chair team at the University of São Paulo and primate researchers in various laboratories in Europe.
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