What Is Language? A Linguist’s Explanation of Human, Verbal Communication

What Is Language? A Linguist’s Explanation of Human, Verbal Communication

 This presentation describes how language system works and how immensely economical it is: all human languages utilize a limited number of initial elements, while allowing people to construct (speaking) and deconstruct (listening) an infinite number of utterances. No other system, whether artificial or natural, can achieve this level of efficiency.

Location: Jonas Academic 110