Linguistics major essay
In general sense, the concept of animal communication refers to the transfer of information by an animal which stimulates significant change in the behavioural pattern of the recipient of the information. According to Hauser et al. (2014), several scholars are of the opinion that an existence of communal distinctiveness in the human language as well as animal communication is important to extensive study taken in last two decades, on humans, apes, rodents as well as birds amongst other non-human species. The fundamental aim of these studies is to understand which of the components of language faculty happens to be exclusively human and which are aligned to the domain-general communication mechanisms or served non-linguistic communication functions (Dingemanse et al., 2015). In addition to this, the study shed light on the area that which language interrelated capacities have been innate by humans from different precursor systems that have already been present in ancestral species.
References
Dingemanse, M., Roberts, S. G., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Drew, P., Floyd, S., … & Rossi, G. (2015). Universal principles in the repair of communication problems. PloS one, 10(9), e0136100. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136100
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