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02 Human Vs Animal Communication

Human language has unique properties that distinguish it from animal communication, including displacement, arbitrariness, and productivity and creativity. Displacement allows humans to communicate about past and future events, while arbitrariness means there is no direct link between linguistic signs and their meanings. Productivity and creativity enable humans to generate an unlimited number of new expressions through language. Other key properties of human language include using a vocal-auditory channel, reciprocity between speakers and listeners, specialization of linguistic sounds for communication, linear sequencing of sounds, and the ability to prevaricate or lie.

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02 Human Vs Animal Communication

Human language has unique properties that distinguish it from animal communication, including displacement, arbitrariness, and productivity and creativity. Displacement allows humans to communicate about past and future events, while arbitrariness means there is no direct link between linguistic signs and their meanings. Productivity and creativity enable humans to generate an unlimited number of new expressions through language. Other key properties of human language include using a vocal-auditory channel, reciprocity between speakers and listeners, specialization of linguistic sounds for communication, linear sequencing of sounds, and the ability to prevaricate or lie.

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Human vs.

animal communication
Types of signals
communicative
informative
- unique property of human language
o displacement
language makes it possible to talk about past & future
>> ability to lie
>> ability to develop history & mythology
o arbitrariness (property of the linguistic sign)
there is no direct link between the sign the sound image & its
meaning
> its conventional
o sound symbolism
certain sounds accompany certain concepts
! i " ! i#"
o connected to smal things
! $ "
o sudden event% with sound
o productivity & creativity
creating new e'pressions
number of utterances is unlimited
o cultural transmission
language is learned from culture
o discreetness
o duality (double articulation)
( levels
level of individual sound
o p% i% t phonemes
level of words
o pit
)ther properties
- vocal-auditory channel
- reciprocity
o speaker and hearer can change roles
- speciali*ation
o linguistic sounds only for communication
- non-diretionality
- rapid fade
- linearity
o one sound follows another% not together
- prevarication + lying

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