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What is the definition of language and what are the rules for language, and how may this compare against animal language?
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
What is language?
It is a communication structure made up of symbols and rules that combine them. It can also be nonverbal.
There is debate over what constitutes a language.
3000-8000 languages.
European languages make up 3% of languages.
The most common languages are Chinese, Spanish and English.
sound symbolism - what we name something is determined by its appearance - not arbitrary |
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Communication
Communication relays information from one organism to another. This includes encoding, transmission, and decoding. Communication can be verbal and nonverbal. |
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Hockett (1960)
16 design features to distinguish a language:
1. Semanticity - express meaning
2. Arbitrariness - no relationship between words and meaning
3. displacement - |
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