Human language is culturally transmitted between generations and allows people to learn multiple languages, whereas animal communication is transmitted biologically and they cannot learn new systems. Human language is also far more productive, with an infinite number of potential utterances, and uses duality of patterning with sounds (phonemes) combined into meaningful units (morphemes). This dual structure is not present in animal communication systems.

1. The difference between
human and Animal
language
Presented by Aqdas Ghafoor
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2. What separates
human from animals
If someone asked you what separates humans
from other animals, one of the first things that
would probably come to mind is language.
Language is so fundamental to human life that it's
hard to imagine what life would be like without it. In
fact, the original term for language referred to it as
part of the body

3. Human Language vs Animal
Language

4. Cultural
Transmission
Human language is culturally transmitted. Human
beings brought up in different cultures acquire
different languages. Man can also learn other
languages via the influence of other cultures.
Animals lack this capacity. Their communication
ability is transmitted biologically, so they are unable
to learn

6. Productivity
"Humans are continually creating new expressions and
novel utterances by manipulating their linguistic
resources to describe new objects and situations. This
property is described as productivity (or 'creativity' or
'open-endedness') and it is linked to the fact that the
potential number of utterances in any human language is
infinite.

8. Duality

9. Duality
The primary difference is known as duality of patterning, or
structure. Each human language has a fixed number of sound
units called "phonemes." These phonemes are combined to
make morphemes, the smallest unit of sound that contains
meaning. Thus, language has got two levels of patterning that
are not present in other animals' communication