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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.