PSY274H5 Chapter Notes -Waggle Dance, African Grey Parrot, Bird Vocalization
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We can make many sounds that aren"t part of language: the description of a language. , what linguists call a grammar, involves the explicit statement of many rules. We have the ability to acquire language without anyone explicitly teaching you. We have the ability to acquire it without any formal instruction. We are set up, hard-wired, to learn it. ; it allows us to express novel ideas rather than simply repeating a: human language is creative (morphemes) and create new words (ex. Demousify if you need to rid your house of mice), and following syntactic rules, we can recombine words and create new sentences (ex. The sentence you"re reading right this moment): these 6 features of language are enough to help us determine whether the following instances of animal behavior are evidence of language of the type found among humans. : has rules (1), exhibits displacement in referring to food sources that aren"t.
