It is generally assumed that only humans have.

Example of human language. We directly link between the sign and the meaning cigarette with two red lines crossed. Human language is recursive. In fact it would take about 40 human life spans to.

Non- linguistic symbols such as expressive gestures signals of various kinds traffic lights road signs. Maria Airth Show bio Maria has taught University level psychology and mathematics courses for over 20 years. For example English speakers prefer to talk about duration in terms of length eg That was a short talk The meeting didnt take long while Spanish and Greek speakers prefer to talk about time in terms of amount relying more on words like much big and little rather than short and long Our research into such basic cognitive abilities as estimating duration shows that speakers of different languages differ in ways predicted by the patterns of metaphors in their language.

Human language is completely arbitrary with very few exceptions. Humans can refer to past and future time. The honey-bee must perform its dance the woodchuck must cry out in order to warn his fellows when it beholds an eagle.

Language is Vocal Verbal and Sound. Language is a system of vocal and verbal symbolism. Mostly human behaviour is under the voluntary control and human language is creative and unpredictable.

Speakers can also talk about things that are physically distant such as other countries the moon etc. For example the Celtic Germanic Slavic Italic and Indo-Iranian language families are branches of a larger Indo-European language family. The Discovery of Ones Name 6.

This property of human language is called displacement. Expressive and Communicative Functions 2. Human Language Review Animal Communication Summary Honeybees Birds Dogs Non-human Primates Honeybee Dance Dance to communicate Dance communicates direction and distance to food source Not entirely arbitrary Question How does the dance indicate direction.