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ACTIVITY 2, Sources - Coggle Diagram
ACTIVITY 2
PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE
Cultural Transmission
- Human need to be exposed to a language in order to acquire it which mean that human does not produced it instinctively.
- Animal are born with a set of specific signals that are produced instinctively and it is fix.
Duality
- Even with a limited set of discrete sounds, human are capable of producing a very large number of sound combination.
- Animals' communicative signals are fixed and cannot be broken down into separate parts
Productivity
- Create new expression and novel utterances by manipulating their linguistics resources to describe new objects or situations.
- Animal signals have fixed reference and very limited number of combinations to use when communicate.
Arbitrariness
- The human linguistics form has no natural relationship with the objects it represent because it can have several or range of meaning.
- Animal show clear connection between message conveyed and signal used because usually one signal only has one meaning.
Discreteness
- Human language is composed of sets of distinct sounds. One sound on its own may convey one meaning, multiple sounds combined in a particular order convey a different meaning.
Displacement
- The ability of human language to communicate throughout time and across space (past, present and future) while animal communication is designed for this moment, here and now.
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