Talk:Displacement (linguistics)

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Hello, I am planning on working on this page. Thinking to add Ravens and Weaver ants as examples and link to recruitment behavior. Is anyone else working on this at this time? Sylvia253 (talk) 22:58, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I know I'm done. Please, go ahead! Melchoir (talk) 23:27, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

alright thank youSylvia253 (talk) 01:51, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Other species that have shown an element of displacement in their communication system are ants and ravens. Ants have been observed sending out scouts to patrol for food items, and coming back for other workers if the food found is too large to bring to the nest by the finder, for example a dead caterpillar that is too heavy.

Study of Weaver Ants at Stanford....

Raven common Raven Corvux corax

Heinrich, Bernd (1989). Ravens in Winter. Summit Books. ISBN 0671678094Sylvia253 (talk) 02:47, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Karl von Frisch

Bickerton page 140 "But even without knowing the mechanics of it, we can be pretty sure that ravens do have an ACS that has somehow achieved displacement" page 145 "We know our forebears scavenged large dead animals, we know they faced fierce competetion from other scanvenger/predetors, and it's a reasonable inference that they could have succeeded only by recruiting sufficent numbers. And as I see it, there's only one way they [humans]could have done this, the same way ants and bees did it, by breaking the ACS barrier and achieving displacement." page 160 "Far more important than what kind of signal was used is the fact that using any kind of signal to indicate an animal carcass at perhaps several miles distance that you'd seen some hours ago would be the first clear case of displacement outside the hymenoptera." page 130 "Recruitment - that turns out to be the key word in the birth of language." page 131 "But in escaping the here and now, it is responding to the selective pressure noted at the end of last section - the pressure likeliest to move in the direction of language." page 217 "It's only when you fully appreciate what displacement means, how the absence of displacement is not just a casual feature of ACSs but a crucial defining feature of pre-human minds, that you can start getting the complete picture." Sylvia253 (talk) 03:15, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

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