CGSC 1001 Lecture 8: 10-10 - Language
17 Feb 2018
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Language: what it is: structural description: a set of symbols that can be arranged in certain ways. Animal communication typically lacking in ambiguity: also called (cid:498)zoosemiotics(cid:499, works through gesture, expression, gaze following, vocalization, olfactory communication, and electric, colouration, function: dominance, courtship, ownership, food alert, alarm, metacommuniation. Human language instructions: khan academy video on how to program: http://youtu. be/huspzle6szc, a human writes (cid:498)code(cid:499) which the computer reads. )t follows the human"s: we all know how to do it, but we don"t know how we do it, so we have to study it like any other phenomenon. Our knowledge of how to speak is implicit, not explicit. It has a structure, but that structure is implicit. Language is a brain interface: like a computer programming language, natural languages allow interfacing between what might be two very different brains. "every aortic valve repair affects some organism part. " (# # # #-animalbodypart 1)
