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Do animals have language?
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Expert Answer
Animals have communication systems but lack human language's recursive grammar, infinite productivity, and displacement (talking about abstract/unpresent things). Bees communicate locations through dances; primates learn signs. Whether any animal communication constitutes 'language' depends on definitions.
Key Insight
Animals have communication systems but lack human language's recursive grammar, infinite productivity, and displacement (talking about abstract/unpresent things).
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