What is language? People might say that humans are not the only living beings that use language. The types of communication that animals use is definitely useful and does meet some of the same goals as human speech, but it is not truly language. What are these differences in communication that separate humans from animals, and why are they important. This is the topic of the unit, which encourages not only practical applications of language use (Vocabulary, Reading, Writing, Grammar Usage, Speaking, and Listening), but also critical thinking on the concept of language itself. This unit tries to encourage metalinguistic awareness in English language learners through the use of universally relatable and easily understandable examples and is i...
International audienceThe question of language remains a key issue in the debate over the continuity...
This paper is situated in the context of debates about animals and language, and animal-human relati...
In the last decades, putative nonhuman linguistic skills have been proposed as an ess...
This essay discusses whether or not language is unique to humans or if animals are able to learn hum...
Animals do not use language. There is a widely accepted falsehood that all organisms on Earth have d...
[Abstract] Sandra Grötsch, University of Oulu, Finland Conversation strategies between animals and h...
Barbara Rode Uniwersytet WarszawskiWydział Polonistyki Abstract Do animals u...
With the aim to clarify the definition of humans as “linguistic animals”, in the present paper I fun...
Comparative research has proven to be a fruitful field of study on the ontogenetic and phylogenetic ...
International audienceComparative research has proven to be a fruitful field of study on the ontogen...
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of ...
La investigación comparada ha demostrado ser un campo de estudio fructífero sobre la evolución ontog...
While most work on the evolution of language has been centered on the evolution of syntax, my focus ...
The words “do animals talk to each other the way people do?” are fighting words in the fields of ani...
The differences between animal communication systems and human language have been an area of conside...
International audienceThe question of language remains a key issue in the debate over the continuity...
This paper is situated in the context of debates about animals and language, and animal-human relati...
In the last decades, putative nonhuman linguistic skills have been proposed as an ess...
This essay discusses whether or not language is unique to humans or if animals are able to learn hum...
Animals do not use language. There is a widely accepted falsehood that all organisms on Earth have d...
[Abstract] Sandra Grötsch, University of Oulu, Finland Conversation strategies between animals and h...
Barbara Rode Uniwersytet WarszawskiWydział Polonistyki Abstract Do animals u...
With the aim to clarify the definition of humans as “linguistic animals”, in the present paper I fun...
Comparative research has proven to be a fruitful field of study on the ontogenetic and phylogenetic ...
International audienceComparative research has proven to be a fruitful field of study on the ontogen...
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of ...
La investigación comparada ha demostrado ser un campo de estudio fructífero sobre la evolución ontog...
While most work on the evolution of language has been centered on the evolution of syntax, my focus ...
The words “do animals talk to each other the way people do?” are fighting words in the fields of ani...
The differences between animal communication systems and human language have been an area of conside...
International audienceThe question of language remains a key issue in the debate over the continuity...
This paper is situated in the context of debates about animals and language, and animal-human relati...
In the last decades, putative nonhuman linguistic skills have been proposed as an ess...