PSYO 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Waggle Dance, Animal Communication, Linguistic Universal
23 Nov 2017
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Hebb"s view: reflexive communication: the most elementary form of communication. Communication has a specific goal and has a consequence that is crucial for the survival for others. Flexible because you can say it choose to give than call: language: communication by a system of symbols. The symbols can be ordered and reordered (syntax) to change the meaning (semantics). In summary: meaning, symbols, combination (order): 3. most complicated form, alphabet is our symbols, creates words and can reorder them to change the meaning. Infinite number of meanings: ability to understand is a whole other concept (not an innate ability to understand) Hockett: linguistic universals of human language: characteristics of human language versus animal communication (can apply to various extent to gestures, postures, vocalizations, etc. , we can identify 13 characteristics (based on hockett, 1959, 1960, 1961) of human language. Intensity of the waggle tells the quality of the food source.
