PSYCH207 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vocal Folds, Logical Consequence, Assertiveness
12 Apr 2015
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Systems that do not form true languages interest sight to see along the way to the food source. Language use is intimately connected to cognition. Although language is often used as a communiation system, there are other communication. It can only communicate that kind of message the dance cant nform the bees about an. These communication systems can send only very speci c messages. A natural language has two necessary charateristics: it is regular (governed by a stem of rules, called grammar), and it is productive meaning that in nite combinations of thehings can be expressed in it. All human languages are communication systems, but not all communication system have. Chimpanzees have been taught to use symbols or signs to make requests or label objects. Chimpanzees can even learn to spontaneously use symbols to communicate, learn to use symbols simply by watching others, and learn to understand spoken english words.
