Human growth and evolution greatly surpasses that of entire animal kingdom in numerous ways. Unlike the animals they possess an entire linguistic framework that forms their communication whether it is oral or written. This linguistic growth and development thus facilitates them to have broader and better communicative skill than the other living creatures which is unquestionably result of the massive intellect and knowledge they possess through their greatly developed mind. There are thus numerous attributes that are available in the human communication but almost entirely absent in the animal communication.
Phonemes/ Duality of Sound: The animal community lacks the duality of articulation of speech sounds which is a prominent attribute of humanly articulation. Double articulation means the basic sounds enabling the word formation and hence the communication. Most of the animals use these basic sounds probably just once whereas the humans in their every language possess 30-40 sounds such as a… p… t… k… etc which in their crude form are useless and are thus later combined to form a meaningful word or the sentence and thus creating a duality or double articulation.
Word Formation: Animal language doesn’t have any formation of new words and rather doesn’t even use words for their communication; they just have a single sound pattern that they use in various tones or pitches to convey different feelings or desires. Humans on the other hand are full of words and phrases and sentences to convey their feelings and emotions and thus can express themselves more easily and conveniently than animals owing to the complete absence of word formation ability of the animals in their entire kingdom.
Whimsicality: The animal system of communication lacks whimsicality owing to the fact that not just they have a limited manner or mode of communication and the limited availability of the sound that they produce; humans on the other hand have an whimsical articulation of the speech sounds and the sounds used for referring to certain objects have in reality no any direct link with the said sound and are rather a humanly objectified things or commodities or reference which may even be shifted to something entirely differently else on their will. This attribute is absent in the animal communication and they have no any whimsical articulation of sound, rather certain limited sounds (depending upon the species) used for some limited purposes.
Patterning: Patterning refers to the formation of words or sentences based on certain rules and guidelines and since the animals entirely lack the phonetics and the ability to create new words, the patterning is yet another thing absent in the animal kingdom.
Displacement: It refers to the phenomenon of expressing via language the absent things in the very same way as one would do the things present before him. Simply put, it represents the idea or view expressed by humans about various things or experienced gain by them differently at different times and places and expressing them in such a manner that the listener may not just understand it but also frame a mental picture of that thought or ideas as if it’s their own experience. This however is not possible with the animals who can't really communicate their past experiences or feelings and emotions until they come forth in the present again and that too not as the humans. They just can react the very same way as previously done by listening to some specific words or sounds in the present time acting as a form of stimulus to trigger the feelings of the past experiences as conveniently as humans.
Creativity: Human beings owing to their linguistic ability also possess language creativity which is almost absent in the animals. Although animals do produce some varied kind of sounds which may seem creative for an instance but actually are just the variation of same sound they articulate unlike the humans who are not just creative in articulating different kinds o f sounds but also creating different kinds of words and phrases even those that never ever existed; this’ the reason they’re able to name the sounds produced by different animals or other living species.
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