Language is also adapted to thinking and interpretation, playing a scaffolding role in cognition (e.g., Carruthers, 2002; Chomsky, 2014; Clark, 2006; Jackendoff, 1996; Reboul, 2015), and is crucial in meta-cognition including self-evaluation, self-regulation and autonoetic consciousness (Alderson-Day and Fernyhough, 2015; Perrone-Bertolotti et al., 2014).
Language is optimized for human communication. It is an efficient vector of information transmission, shaped under cultural and environmental constraints to meet physical, technological, and social needs (e.g., Kirby et al., 2015; Lupyan and Dale, 2016; Millikan, 2005; Scott-Phillips, 2015; Tamariz and Kirby, 2016). Language is also adapted to thinking and interpretation, playing a scaffolding role in cognition (e.g., Carruthers, 2002; Chomsky, 2014; Clark, 2006; Jackendoff, 1996; Reboul, 2015), and is crucial in meta-cognition including self-evaluation, self-regulation and autonoetic consciousness (Alderson-Day and Fernyhough, 2015; Perrone-Bertolotti et al., 2014).