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dollx

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on: Jul 10, 2018
What is the language instinct?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What are the three things that make human language unique?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Proposed by Stephen Pinker, this is the instinct of humans to speak the language of the group in which they live. It is not biologically programmed, because humans speak many different languages.

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The three unique aspects of human language are conventionality, productivity, and displacement.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Excellent

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