NATS 1860 Lecture Notes - Relativism, Preposition And Postposition, Linguistic Relativity
29 Mar 2013
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It"s unrelated to other forms of animal communication. It"s a very special thing that didn"t pop into our brains, and isn"t a continuum to the normal. They do this form many reasons such as food, enemies, territorial display, find mates, locations, and emotions/ feelings/ and thoughts. The way we communicate is tied into animals. When animals communicate they transfer a signal between the two: there is a sender and a receiver. Birdsong: they communicate with each other through various ways of things that they want to tell each other: regional variations based on specific types of birds, each of them have fixed meaning. Primates have more complex bodies and brains than mollusks: better learning and problem solving skills, they have more complex structures and flexible behaviours. Can other species learn languages: alex the parrot was a bird who was trained to speak and understand speech. This parrot knew the names of 100+ objects.
