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Difference Between Human Language and Animal Communication

Harjass Kaur Ramgadiya

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As researchers have looked into how animals use language, the claim that the human use language differently from animals has generated a lot of debate. Researchers have taught apes, dolphins and parrots various human like communication methods, and lately there has be a rise in the study of
animal language and behavior in its natural context as opposed to in a laboratory. My objective is to analyze human language from an evolutionary perspective, to overcome disciplinary boundaries between many scientific disciplines, and to demonstrate how language is just one of the numerous forms that animals have evolved to take. Indicating there has been contact and that other people might be able to access it. The difficulty of articulating how language varies from any type of communicative behavior used by non- human or pre-human creatures is part of the problem of separating man from other animals. We cannot fully understand what it means to say that only man possesses the ability of speech until we have accomplished this [1]. The linguist Charles Hockett [1] provides a generally acknowledged language check list in order to compare human language with animal communication.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijaba.v9i1.849

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