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Topic: In this essay, you will compare and contrast human language and the vocal communication of nonhuman primates. Specifically, you should analyze how the vocal communication systems of humans and nonhuman primates compare in terms of:
(1) production mechanism (anatomy and process);
(2) repertoires (types of signals and range of meanings that the signals convey); and
(3) underlying cognitive abilities (grammar, referentiality, intentionality, theory of mind, etc.).
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Questions (1) and (2) should be discussed briefly; your primary focus is question (3), which should take up a majority of both space and emphasis in your essay. One of the key questions in the study of human language considers which aspects of language are uniquely human and which may be considered part of our primate heritage (see Zuberbuhler 2012). This is a difficult question, on which there is no consensus in the scientific community and you will not resolve the issue yourself. Your focus here should be on the cognitive aspects of communication.
Regarding question (2), we take it as given that human languages are capable of producing an unlimited variety of utterances and conveying a full range of meanings, intentions, and emotions (cf. Pinker, Ch. 2). As for (3), you can use what you know about your own language use and experiences to explore human cognition and communication. However, do not go into a lengthy discussion of human language; the focus should be on nonhuman primates for these questions.
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Human language and vocal communication of non-human primates
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Introduction
In the accompanying, we examine probably the most important investigations on
correspondence frameworks in various species, and we contrast their outcomes and the current
information on human language research (especially on babies' phonetic aptitudes). The point of
this article is to give a display of the connection between human language and non-human
creature correspondence, featuring the subjects of the uniqueness of language, and the parts of
the etymological personnel shared between people also, different creatures.
Part 1 Production mechanism (anatomy and process)
On the off chance that you contrast the human vocal parcel and different primates', there's
a major distinction. For instances, the vocal folds and larynx of monkeys is high up and near the
jaw lines, there is an advance up in their cavity referred to as pharynx. However, for human
male, the vocal folds and larynx is up the pharynx. Around 50 years back, analysts seized on that
perception to figure what they called the laryngeal plunge hypothesis of vowel creation.
Nothing where various vowels were sufficiently particular to keep words separated in a
human language. They credited it to the absence of a human-like low larynx and enormous
pharynx. As the hypothesis created, it guaranteed that delivering the full human vowel stock
required a vocal parcel with about similarly long oral and pharyngeal pits. That happened
uniquely with the appearance of anatomically present-day people, around 200,000 years back,
and just grown-ups among current people, since children are brought into the world with a high
larynx that brings down with age. This hypothesis appeared to clarify two marvels. To start with,
from the 1930s on, a few (fizzled) tests had brought chimpanzees up in human homes to attempt
to energize human-like conduct, especially language and discourse. In the event that laryngeal
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plunge is fundamental for human vowels, and vowels thus for language, at that poin...
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