Re: Apes and language

On Jan 25, 1:55 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since you have not understood what Hockett meant by "duality of
patterning," perhaps you would be more comfortable in French, with
Andre Martinet's "double articulation."

Look it up.

So I just googled for "hockett" and looked up the first
website. It shows the 13 features that make human
language different from animal languages. 1) Vocal
auditory channel, meaning that one speaks with
the mouth to the ear of a listener. Artemis, the cat
of a friend of mine, used to wake her up after siesta.
Once that friend of mine pretended she were still
sleeping. So Artemis climbed on her and meowed
very loudly directly in her ear! and she could'nt but
open her eyes, laughing out loud. The cat knew well
that my friend listens with her ears, and not, for
example, with her feet, and she made deliberate
use of the vocal auditory channel, first language
criterium of Hockett according to that website in
his honor.

13) Duality of patterning, refers to the ability to
recombine small units in different orders. Birds
do that, whales do that, varying their songs,
recombining elements, developing new songs
and dialects from season to season, year to year,
and from whale school to whale school.

Criterium 1 and criterium 13 took me just a moment
each to see the equivalent in animal languages,
and criteria 2 to 12 would be as easy for me to
find an equivalent in animal languages.
.

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    ... language different from animal languages. ... Duality of patterning, ... and from whale school to whale school. ... Criterium 1 and criterium 13 took me just a moment ...
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    ... language different from animal languages. ... and from whale school to whale school. ... Criterium 1 and criterium 13 took me just a moment ...
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