Language is Uniquely human?
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.
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