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Properties of human language
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Created on September 19, 2022
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Human language
Properties
Communcation
vs. informative signals
Cultural transmission
Reflexivity
Displacement
Arbitrariness
Productivity
Intentionality
Non intentional signals
Potentially
Infinite symbols
Socially aquired
Non-instinctive
No iconic relation
word - image
Capacity
Stimulus free
Capacity
Reflect about language
Duality
Patterning
Sound level
Meaning level
Sequence & order
SPECIFIC AND VOLUNTARY INSTANCES OF SPOKEN AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE:
- Out of a set of specific structures.
- Infinite creations, sentences, words.
No instinctive language will emerge without cultural input.
--> flower, flor, Blume --> notebook, cuaderno, Heft --> light, luz, Licht
No direct relation = laugh out loud = amor, love, liebe, amour = fine, good, ok, yes, agree??? = 2, peace, dos???
- Not restricted to the moment of speaking.
- Set out apart from the conditions of speaking.
- Inmediate context does not define the content, tone, or words used in interaction.
- Sounds don't have meaning on their own.
- Put together in a particular sequence--> create meaning. /b/ ɔ/ /l/ --> /bɔl/
STRUCTURES Sequencing and ordering of elements in a language.