Romelo, Ray Allen B. BSME1B CAS101 Oct 7, 2020 Essay No.

1. Can animals commicate?

Animals can communicate but they cannot use language. The animals can communicate
by using body gestures like wagging tails, or by producing sound like barking and growling.
Though these doesn’t qualify as language but they can transmit messages to each other,
which is considered as communication.

2. Can monkeys produce language?

No, the monkeys cannot produce language, but they have a call system used to
communicate with each other. Back in 1950s a coupe raised a chimpanzee to teach it to
speak but it failed in the end since it only learned 4 words from our language. The results
show that non-human primates(monkeys) doesn’t have a suitable voice tract for speech, so
monkeys cannot produce language because of a biological problem.

3. What is the difference between language acquisition and language learning?

The difference between language acquisition and language learning is that language
acquisition pertains to knowing a language naturally, wherein you can use the language with
mastery without trying to learn its structures. This occurs when we are still on our early age
where we acquire our mother tongue. On the other hand, language learning occurs when
you specifically study a language structure. It occurs when we are already a grown up and
we are trying to study a language different from our mother tongue.

To have a better understanding on the difference between language acquisition and

language learning is an example : I am born in Zamboanga city wherein most people speak
the chavacano language, so since I was a kid everyone around me is using it which lead to,
me, acquiring it naturally without trying to learn it(this is language acquisition). As I grow up,
I met a lot of people that speaks different language. I have a friend that speaks Tausug, I
took an interest in their language and asked my friend to teach me how to speak his
language (This is language learning).

4. What is the difference between first language and second language?

The difference between first language and second language is that the first language
refers to the mother tongue or that language that we acquired or the language that we are
considered a native of. This is the language that we acquired from our parents or our
guardians when we are a child. On the other hand, the second language refers to the
language different from our mother tongue that we use in order to speak with another
person that is a native of that said language. This is the language that we acquired from our
acquittances.
An example would be
: I am born in Zamboanga city wherein my parents use the Chavacano language
(First language), so since I was a kid everyone around me is using it which lead to, me,
acquiring it naturally without trying to learn it. As I grow up, I met a lot of people that
speaks different language. I have a friend that speaks Tausug (second language), I took
an interest in their language and asked my friend to teach me how to speak his
language.
5. What happens after a language comes into contact with another?

There are several things that would happen when a language comes into
contact with another. Firstly, when a group of people speaking different languages
comes into contact with each other it will produce a speech community. Secondly, when
a person managed to learned several different languages from coming into contact with
other speakers, that person will be a multilingual person. Thirdly, when a two person
with different languages, without a common language, interacts there will be a language
barrier that will cause problem in their communication. Lastly, when a group of native
speakers of one language interacted with another group of natives with a different
language, there is a tendency that over a period of time another language will be born
with similarities to the two primal language and would also start a culture hybridization.