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1. Dolphins Communicative
System

2. Characteristics of the
properties of human
language
• Unique system of communication
• Informative signals: signals which
you have not intentionally sent
 body language
• Communicative signals: signals
you use intentionally to
communicate something

3. PROPERTIES OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
1- Displacement: The ability to refer to time and space. To
talk about, past, present or future. Also the abstract thinking (we
can imagine a kind of world, creating fantasies).
2- Arbitrariness: The ability to relate object with sign.
Generally there is no natural connection between linguistic form
and meaning, because meanings are imposed for the society.
3- Productivity: The ability to create new sentences,
humans can manipulate our language resources on the needs.
Communication is flexible, unlike the animals.
4- Cultural transmission: Language is acquired are in a
culture, and it is passed from one generation to another.
5- Duality: The language is organized in two levels. Ability to
combinations of individual sounds to form words.

4. Now, the important question…
It’s possible that a creature
could learn to communicate
with humans using
language?

5. DOLPHINS, A FANTASTIC ANIMAL
* Great intelligence
* Big psychological capacity
* Brain heavier than a human brain
* Complex cerebral cortex
* Studies have shown that dolphins are able to
learn, perform tasks with some complexity, to
communicate between them and, through
training, vocalizing sounds similar to words.

6. * They emit pulses of sound from the melon
* They use Whistles

7. Akakamai

8. What human properties of
language could you
detect on the videos you
saw?
*Displacement
*Arbitrariness
*Productivity