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Main Question: How is language different than communication?

Break language into pieces: Grammar, vocabulary, sound discrimination, word-like sounds, etc.
How is the same type of grammar is expressed in different languages?

Question to support that:

How is language innate? How is it learned?
How do different phenomena/results support innate/learned idea?  e.g. sound discrimination
What are the stages of langauge development?  
Bi-lingual development - the power of the context in which language develops
How is language related to identity?

3. The major criticism of the efforts to teach language to apes is that
a. the proper reinforcement techniques have not been used
b. the animals were obtained in the wild and had not been properly socialized
c. very few, if any, of the animals' productions could be considered original
d. apes cannot learn to use the pronouns "I" and "you"

1. How does grammar enable us to talk about things we couldn't with just communication (e.g. just hand gestures)? Give an example or describe.

7. Give one example of what an animal does that shows communication, but not language. Be sure to include the components of language.

8. This is much harder, and perhaps impossible. Give one example of what an animal does that shows language. Be sure to include the components of language.