Thursday 4 August 2016

Language is Uniquely Human


Language is Uniquely human?

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               Language is our only tool to communicate. It enables every individual develop rapport to mean understanding. As the old quote says " Communication is everyone's panacea for everything, which may inculcate unity. 

Being supported by a post in www.quora.com (retrieved 7:11 pm 08/04/2016) from the lecture in 2011, Chomsky said that “the most elementary property of human language is that it consists of a discrete infinity of interpretable expressions -- so there's five-word sentences, and six-word sentences, no five-and-a-half words sentence, so it goes on indefinitely like the integers. That's kind of unusual, there's nothing like that known in the biological world. " This is supported by a linguistic professor at a major US university and made mentioned that "language is uniquely human. No other animal communication system comes even close to the complexity and flexibility of human language. For example, in human language we are able to create unique expressions every single day that no one else has ever said, and because human language is composed of multiple small units put together by rules, every other speaker of our native language can understand what we just said. No animal communication system is like that. Human language is constantly inventing new words to describe new things. No animal communication system is like that. Human language is multi-level in its complexity--sounds are put together to form morphemes, morphemes are put together to form words, words are put together to form sentences, and sentences are put together to form discourse. No animal communication system is like that. Human language is completely unique."


Therefore, it makes justification from a statement in phys.org (2013) that in accordance to the researchers from Durham University which expounds that “the uniquely expressive power of human language requires humans to create and use signals in a flexible way. They claim that his was only made possible by the evolution of particular psychological abilities, and thus explain why language is unique to humans.


Noam Chomsky has said that human language is unique in the biological world. Is he correct?


























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