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HUMAN LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANIMALS

Human language showcases unique properties that set it apart from animal communication. Key characteristics include duality, which allows for sound production and meaning, displacement for referencing different times and places, and productivity enabling infinite expressions.

HUMAN LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANIMALS

HUMAN LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANIMALS

Talking to Animals

with this complexity, the rest of creation will not understand our language. But there are also those who can train human language to animals, but they don't have anything like the one above. nor can they develop human language. This proves that human language is unique and cannot be easily imitated

What is Human Language?

Duality
is a property of language whereby linguistic forms have two simultaneous levels of sound production and meaning also called 'double articulation'.
Cultural Transimission
the process whereby knowledge of a language is passed from one generation to next
Productivity
related to the ability of human language to form an infinite number of expression
Arbitrariness
no logical relationship between the word and object it refers to
Displacement
to express the things that was happen in the past, now, and future, also the things are far from the speakers
Three face of Language system
Expression, Meaning, and Context

Context: refers to the social situation is uttered and includes whatever has been expressed earlier i that situation

Meaning: refers to the sense and referents of these elements of expression.

Expression: encompasses words, phrases, and sentences including intonation and stress.