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Animal languages are forms of non-human animal communication that show similarities to human language. Animals communicate through a variety of signs, such as sounds or movements. Signing among animals may be considered complex enough to be a form of language if the inventory of signs is large. … See more
Human language contains the following properties. Some experts argue these properties separate human language from animal communication:
• Arbitrariness: There is usually no rational relationship … See moreAmong the most studied examples of animal languages are:
Birds
• See more• Discussion: Starling Study: Recursion (Linguist List)
• International Bioacoustics Council research on animal language.
• The Animal Communication Project. More information on animal communication. See moreHumans are able to distinguish real words from fake words based on the phonological order of the word itself. In a 2013 study, See more
It is worth distinguishing "animal language" from "animal communication", although there is some comparative interchange in certain cases (e.g. Cheney & Seyfarth's vervet monkey call studies). Thus "animal language" typically does not include bee dancing, bird song, … See more
• Bickerton, D. (2005). Language evolution: a brief guide for linguists. link
• Deacon, T. W. (1997) The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Human Brain. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press, ISBN 0-393-03838-6 See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Animal language - Wikipedia
Animal language - Wikipedia