a strategy such as «Add-ed to the end of the third word». They might, accidentally, produce a few good sentences such as: Herbert toasted seventeen crumpets. But more often, the results would be quite absurd:
* Clarissa hatefrogs-ed.
* The girl who-ed hate frogs scream.fact, it is quite impossible for anybody to form sentences and understand them unless they realize that each one has an inaudible, invisible structure, which cannot be discovered by mechanical means such as counting. Once a person has realized this, they can locate the component to which the past tense-ed must be added even if they have never heard or said the sentence before, and even if it contains a totally new verb, as in: penguin shramped the albatross.other words, language operations are structure dependent - they depend on an understanding of the internal structure of a sentence, rather than on the number of elements involved. This may seem obvious to speakers of English. But the rarity, or perhaps absence, of this property in animal communication indicates its crucial importance. Its presence has not been proved in any animal system (though birdsong may turn out to be structure dependent, according to some researchers). Moreover, the types of structure dependent operations found in language are often quite complicated, and involve considerably more than the mere addition of items (as in the case of the past tense). Elements of structure can change places, or even be omitted. For example, in one type of question, the first verbal element changes places with the subject:
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[That dirty child] [must] wash, the related question
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[Must] [that dirty child] wash? in the sentence, Billy swims faster than Henrietta.is generally agreed that the sentence means «Billy swims faster than Henrietta swims», and that the second occurrence of swims is «understood».
In human language, the symbols are mostly arbitrary, and the system has to be painstakingly transmitted from one generation to another. Duality and displacement - the organization of language into two layers, and the ability to talk about absent objects and events - are usual in the human society. Language is a patterned system of arbitrary sound signals, characterized by structure dependence, creativity, displacement, duality, and cultural transmission.
This is true of all languages ??in the world, which are remarkably similar in their main design features. There is no evidence that any language is more «primitive» than any other. There are certainly primitive cultures. A primitive culture is reflected in the vocabulary of a language, which might lack words common in advanced societies. But even the most primitive tribes have languages ??whose underlying structure is every bit as complex as English or Russian or Chinese.
Conclusion
As conclusion the linguistic features in a casual conversation context has been a conscious choice, supporting the difference approach in sex speech styles. Rather than acknowledging an imbalance of power between the sexes, we have supported the claim that speech styles are different due to contrasting interaction purposes. For women this includes the payoff of connection and solida...
