Human language and animal communication 

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One thing that bothered me a bit about human languge being directional vs animal language being radiant is that the reason for that is community. Usually humans are in fixed groups of sorts, that idea now evolved to cities and even an online platform, however animal communication is also directional in groups. When a wolf is fighting another wolf for a mate for example, he is not growling into the nothingness of a forest, he is growling at his opponent specifically. Similarly, as soon as we are separated and alone, human communication becomes radiant as well, imagine somone stranded on an island writing "HELP" on the beach with sticks and stones in the hopes someone sees it, just like birds' mating calls. The example with someone talking to the camera is for me even more specific, since usually, one is not trying to communicate or have a conversation, one is trying to record knowledge for later or other humans. A TV broadcaster doesn't expect a response from viewers at home to whatever he says, unlike a bird thats is hoping for a response after every song from a mate.

Quite amusing, very clear and challaging for learners.... and experts, too.

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That was very informative, thanks. Can you make a video about how many points dolphin languages cover? Subscribed.

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Sir, Thank you for the brilliant lecture. I've got a couple of questions & comments:Q1. How can languages that have their own writing systems & languages that don't have it be equally evolved?Q2. If chemical-olfactory communication channel is not a language but is still a means of communication, then language is not the only means of communication. Right?Comment: In some cultures communication is asymetrical - men talk, women listen & follw the instructions.Q3. " There's nothing tree-ish about a tree". To a Chinese speaker the word tree is very tree-ish - 木; paddyfield is field-ish - 田. & What about onomatopoeia in English - a whizz sounds like a whizz? Q4. "Animal communication is not symbolic" ? - a male stickleback shows his belly not his penis to the female; a monkey's butt doesn't stand for butt, it stands for submissiveness. Q7. "Lying is absent from animal communication" . What about a caterpillr pretending to be a snake? Thank You

Very pleased to have "discovered" your Channel. In some ways, to me, it feels like I am making a mid-career shift in my scholarly interests, although I am not without some background to make this happen - seemingly in a "smooth" manner. I can see myself going through your posted video series and am grateful to be able to do so. I noticed certain indicators or what I will call "linguistic markers" in your presentation - so much so that when you started to talk about these "back channel" responses and invited us to try this experiment where we don't respond or interact in this manner with others you then you do this eye brow raise. Deliberate or not, it seemed like a lovely example of this concept. (Or so I think.) Do seemingly mono-directional communication activities (like a posted video) *lack* back channel markers? And what should one make of the "pop" sound around 9:22? Is that a linguistic "thing"?

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Thank you so much! But please from where can I get the book that you took this information from. I am making my research and I really need the book. Thank in advance.

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This was really helpful. But, did you miss ‘specialization’?

Chimps etc can give communication by facial muscle manipulation but an animal with no such ability yet have a complex communication system as the Orca. Orca have language? Orca pods have different dialects. They have a understanding of past, present , future, cause and effect, group planning. Only a true language can this be accomplished. Where do they fit in your parameter groupings?

THANK YOU! AND I´LL REALLY APPRECIATE, A LOT ACTUALLY, IF YOU CAN SEND ME A TAPESCRIPT OF THIS VIDEO.

My cat Bunny communicates with me in a human way when she wants to play. She says, "Ree-ree?" This isn't a sound that a cat would normally make, and she doesn't make this sound under any other circumstances. I think it's a one-word lingua franca.

What about whale song? Every "human" characteristic of language applies to that as well.

Doesn't what badgers do when they pretend to be dead to deceive their predators count as prevarication?

Thank you very much. i´m gettin smarter every day. May I raise a little objection to Nr. 13: Several animals are acutually lying e.g. the fork-tailed drongo, who imitates the warning call of meerkats (including the "all-clear"-call after the dromgo stole the food while the meerkats were hiding, in order to motivate them to come back and gather more food). Surely an exception that doesn´t mean you are wrong. I only mention it because you have to be prepared, that some day in the near future there will be a pitiless smartass in the very last row of your course, who has watched the National Geographic Channel all day during COVID19, telling you a didactic tale about the "african fork-tailed drongo".

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