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Communicative signals

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Intentional, consious and deliberate communication.

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Informative signals

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Unintentionally sent messages, e.g. body language

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Properties of language

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Displacement 
Semanticity 
Arbritrariness
Cultural transmission 
Productivity 
Duality 
Discreteness
Reflexivity
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Displacement

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The ability to refer to things that are distant in space or time, things that are not here and now.

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Semanticity

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Language carries meaning, e.g. words constantly stands for objects. Talking about a tree everybody knows its a tall thing with leaves that grows outside.

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Arbritrariness

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There is no natural connection between the token and its referent, the word tree has no actual connection to do with the tall thing growing outside.

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Cultural transmission

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Some aspects of language are not instinctive or inherited bud learned, specific languages depend on culture. A child will speak the language it is surrounded with.

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Productivity

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The ability to create new words and sentences, there is an endless amount of sentences in the english language.

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Duality

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Units can be put together and then form meaningful units (words), the units can be recombined to form different units.

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Discreteness

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Signals can be broken down into small units which has no meaning

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Reflexivity

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The communication system can be used to discuss the communication itself.

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Washoe

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Brought up using sign language, could use 100 signs and produce short senteces.

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Sarah and Lana

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Taught to use symbols for words and could thereby communicate using these symbols.

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Kanzi

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Watched his mother (Lana) being taught sign language more sussexfully than her.

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