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    We Are Surrounded by Language. Language Is Every Where

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    A language is a structured system of communication that allows people to share ideas, thoughts, and experiences through a set of codes. It is composed of sounds or signs that can be strung together to form words and sentences to convey meaning. Language is everywhere and is an essential part of daily life. Some key characteristics of human language include that it is a system, arbitrary, social, spoken, productive/creative, and complete for native speakers. Human language differs from animal communication in its duality of patterning, creativity, displacement, interchangeability, cultural transmission, arbitrariness, ambiguity, and variety.

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    We Are Surrounded by Language. Language Is Every Where

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    A language is a structured system of communication that allows people to share ideas, thoughts, and experiences through a set of codes. It is composed of sounds or signs that can be strung together to form words and sentences to convey meaning. Language is everywhere and is an essential part of daily life. Some key characteristics of human language include that it is a system, arbitrary, social, spoken, productive/creative, and complete for native speakers. Human language differs from animal communication in its duality of patterning, creativity, displacement, interchangeability, cultural transmission, arbitrariness, ambiguity, and variety.

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    A language is a structured system of communication that allows people to share ideas, thoughts, and experiences through a set of codes. It is composed of sounds or signs that can be strung together to form words and sentences to convey meaning. Language is everywhere and is an essential part of daily life. Some key characteristics of human language include that it is a system, arbitrary, social, spoken, productive/creative, and complete for native speakers. Human language differs from animal communication in its duality of patterning, creativity, displacement, interchangeability, cultural transmission, arbitrariness, ambiguity, and variety.

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    What Is Language

    A language is a structured system of communication.


    Language is a set of codes to share,ideas,thoughts and
    experiences. When you know a language, you can speak (or sign)
    and be understood by others who know that language.
    Knowledge of the Sound System • When we know a language, we
    know what sounds (or signs) are used in the language and which
    sounds (or signs) are not.

    We Are Surrounded by Language.


    Language is every where.
    Based on the definitions of a language above, we cay that a
    language is every side of our daily life. In short, a means of
    communication known as a language must have some characteristics that
    do not belong to the other means of communication.

    Characteristics of Language

    Based on the definitions of a language above, we can


    state some characteristics of human language, as follows:

    1. A language is a system.

    2. A language is said to be arbitrary

    3. A language is social.

    4. A language is spoken.

    5. A language  is productive or creative.

    6. A language is complete for its native speakers.

    Difference Between Human And Animal Languge


      Human Animal

    Duality of Distinctive Other animals do not communicate by arranging arbitrary sounds,


    Patterning sounds, called which limits the number of messages they can create.
    phonemes, are
    arbitrary and
    have no
    meaning. But
    humans can
    string these
    sounds in an
    infinite number
    of ways to create
    meaning via
    words and
    sentences.

    Creativity New words can Animals have to evolve in order for their signs to change.
    be invented
    easily.

    Displacement Humans can talk Animal communication is context driven—they react to stimuli, or
    about remote, indexes.
    abstract, or
    imaginary things
    that aren't
    happening in
    their immediate
    environments.

    Interchangeability Any gender of Certain animal communications in the animal world can only be used
    human can use by one gender of that animal.
    the same
    languages.

    Cultural Humans acquire The way that animals communicate are biological, or inborn.
    Transmission language
    culturally—
    words must be
    learned.

    Arbitrariness Human language Animal communication is not symbolic, so it cannot preserve ideas of
    is symbolic, the past.
    using a set
      Human Animal

    number of
    sounds
    (phonemes) and
    characters
    (alphabet),
    which allows
    ideas to be
    recorded and
    preserved.

    Biology On a purely Other animals have different biological structures, which impact they
    biological level, way they make sounds.
    the human voice
    box and tongue
    are very unique,
    and are required
    to make the
    sounds we
    recognize as
    language.

    Ambiguity A word, or sign, Every sign has only one meaning.


    can have several
    meanings.

    Variety Human language Animals only have a limited number of combinations they can use to
    can arrange communicate.
    words into an
    infinite number
    of ideas,
    sometimes
    referred to as
    discrete infinity.

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