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    This document discusses the origins and evolution of human language. It explains that early hominids began transmitting basic information to each other around 5-8 million years ago through a prelanguage communication system that preceded fully developed language. Over time, language evolved distinct features like vocal transmission, meaning, discrete sounds, productivity, and cultural transmission that set it apart from other forms of communication. The document also addresses how languages can become extinct when they are no longer learned and used over generations.

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    LANGUAGE BIRTH

    Chapter 6 (117 -
    Communication and its channels
    How is communication among
    members of any particular species?

    Transmission
    of signals
    between
    members of
    different
    species

    How do you communicate with your


    pet?
    CHANNELS

    ACOUSTIC OPTICAL TACTIC

    OLFACTORY
    COMMUNICATION AMONG
    NONHUMAN PRIMATES

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNuZ4OE6vCk
    WHEN DOES A COMMUNICATION
    SYSTEM BECOMES LANGUAGE?

    Hominids transmit
    information amob
    them (5 – 8nmillion)

    PRELANGUAGE
    (A communication
    system that preceded
    full-fledged
    language)
    Design features of language

    2. Broadcast
    1. Vocal-auditory transmission and
    channel directional reception
    (speech sounds)

    Charles
    Hockett 3. Rapid fading 4. Interchangeability
    (Speech signals (speakers and
    disappear) heares)

    5. Complete 6. Specialization
    feedback (making (human speech is
    any corrections) for communication)
    8. Arbitrariness (No
    7. Semancity (Speech
    relationship the form
    has meaning)
    and the concept)

    10. Displacement (talk


    9. Discretness (not or write about
    continous sounds, something that is far
    discrete sounds) removed in time or
    space)

    11. 12. Duality of


    Productivity/openess pattering (1.Level of
    (use language in sounds. 2 level of
    innovative ways) words)
    13. Cultural or
    traditional
    transmission 14. Prevarication
    (Biloligical ((false knowledge)
    predispostion to
    acquire a language)

    15. Reflexiveness 16. Learnability (we


    (Use language to talk can potentially learn
    about language) any language)
    How does language die?
    How do they become extinct?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qbYFvOHwk

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