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Thanks, you're right, I found this 'Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Language' and certainly scientific research supports this and i'd

by tudorw 9y ago

Thanks, you're right, I found this 'Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Language' and certainly scientific research supports this and i'd support that, I guess I am tripping up on semantics, language and communication are not mutually exclusive, so animals can communicate, this is clear, the argument is they cannot create the mental constructs that gives language its utility, is that agreeable ?

tudorw 9y ago
Animal language studies: What happened? https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-016-1101-y https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-016-1101-y
lngnmn 9y ago
Exactly. Babies (before language acquisition) are communicating in the same way - only expressing emotions with cries and other forms of non-verbal communication.