© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com How did human sound systems get to be the way they are? Collecting contributions implementing a wealth of methods to address this question, this special issue treats language and speech as being the result of a complex adaptive system. The work throughout provides evidence and theory at the levels of phylogeny, glossogeny, and ontogeny. In taking a multi-disciplinary approach that considers interactions within and between these levels of selection, the papers collectively provide a valuable, integrated contribution to existing work on the evolution of speech and sound systems.

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关于音响系统出现的特刊介绍

© 作者 2017。牛津大学出版社出版。版权所有。如需权限，请发送电子邮件至：journals.permissions@oup.com 人类音响系统是如何变成现在这样的？本期特刊收集了实施大量方法来解决这个问题的贡献，将语言和语音视为复杂自适应系统的结果。整个工作在系统发育、语言发育和个体发育水平上提供了证据和理论。在采取考虑这些选择级别内部和之间相互作用的多学科方法时，这些论文共同为语音和声音系统进化的现有工作提供了宝贵的综合贡献。