The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Third Edition - Caroline Myrick
12. Do Animals Use Language?
The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Third Edition - Caroline Myrick
Donna Jo Napoli [+]
Swarthmore College
Donna Jo Napoli is Professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore College. She publishes primarily on the structure of Italian and of sign languages. She also writes children’s fiction: http://www.swarthmore.edu/donna-jo-napoli.
Description
Animals communicate with one another in ways that meet some, but not all criteria of a human language. Most language researchers agree that this means animals don’t use language.