Language
is human system of communication that uses arbitrary signals, such as voice
sound, gestures, or written symbols. The study of language is called
linguistics. The language in the past was not as today. The human could not speak,
and they were use sign and paint to tell what they want to do or said. After
that, the people invent the letters of alphabet, and the language became
development until now. At these days, you see many animals become speak and
said many words as hi, how are you and good morning, but is it truth that the
animals can speak as human. In this an essay I will analysis article about (an
elephant learns to speak Korean), and I will give my opinion about this
article.
This article tells about an elephant named Koshik. It is 22years old and
it lives in Everland Zoo in Yonging, a City south of Seoul. It imitate human
speech and has many Korean words as saying Choah (good) , Nuo (lie down) and
other words. It cannot use their lips to make sounds like human do, however; it
rolling up his trunks and putting it into his mouth. After that, it places the
tip of his trunk on his tongue or on the ceiling of his mouth to create
different sound. The researchers think that an elephant learns and raise his
skill from his trainer. Also, they think that an elephant will be increasing
its skill and become speak as human.
In
my opinion, I disagree with this article, because many reasons. The first
reason is components of language as phonology, and it is about study of sound.
The sounds of human language are special, because they are produced by set of
organs, the speech organs. These speech organs belong only for human, but the
animals not. The speech organs in human use to create the sound of language and
it important in language; however, the animals did not have the speech organs ,so
they cannot speak as human. Also, the language has morphology, and it is study
of how words are putting together. Speakers tend to think of words as building
block of sentences and of sentences as string of words; however, words are not
all alike, some words cannot be broken down into smaller elements and other
can. The puzzle deepens, when we try to translate word in one language to
other, and the animals cannot make sentence by many words or cannot translate
any word from one language to other. Also that, to make sense of structure of
language, we should know all meaning of words and that is difficult to animals,
because they did not have brain until realize that. The other component of
language is semantic, and it is study of meaning. The linguistics said the
meaning is highly ambiguous term, because we sometime said same sentence, but
they carried different meaning, so we should use dictionary to know the real
meaning of those words. Moreover, the animals cannot speak as human, because
they cannot use dictionary or to go to any reference to know the meaning.
The
second reason is communication. The language mean communication, and the
animals cannot communication, if you will speak with them and will not give you
and any feedback, because they did not know all words in language, and did not have
brain until give you answer. They except know words that they accustomed listen
to them.
The
third reason is brain. The brain of animals is less developed as compared to
humans. Because, of this animals cannot developed the words and language to
express their feeling.
The
last reason is learning. The animals did not have enough learning until can
speak as human. For example when you want to learn a new language, you should
learn it and also, the baby did not speak directly until his or her mother
restores the word much time until learn it and learning should have to check to
reference until can speak and the animals cannot do that.
As
you can see, there are many barriers that effect on the speaking of animals as
component of language and the animals did not have background information about
it. Also, the brain is other barrier that effect on speaking of animals.
Furthermore, learning. And the animals did not have learn until can speak.
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