dolphin`s communication

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Did you know that Bottlenose dolphins could reflect themselves to see their body and even a specific part of it in front of the mirror like humans? A variety of studies of behaviors of dolphins has recently shown that Bottlenose dolphins could be smarter than chimps that are as brilliant as three-year-old children. (Kyle Munkittrick, 2010) These studies show us how intelligent and clever dolphins are. Most importantly, dolphins even communicate with each other.
Dolphins are amazing. However, does their intelligence necessarily mean that their communication should be considered language? I do not think so. I want to focus on analyzing how dolphins communicate and the reason why their way cannot be called language.

There are seven features that make up a human language. They are cultural transmission, creativity, duality of patterning, stimulus freedom, arbitrariness, displacement, and structural dependency. These seven are the conditions of being a language. The communication of dolphins does not satisfy all of these seven traits.

Cultural Transmission
Dolphins’ communication seems to have one of the seven features of human language, cultural transmission. Cultural transmission is the characteristic that language is learned through exposure, not innate.

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Henry Fountain(2006) Hello, My Name Is . . . . New York Times,http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/science/16observ.html?scp=2&sq=dolphin+communication+language&st=nyt

Munkittrick, K. (2010) Dolphins As Non-Human Persons.http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/munkittrick20100105/

Unknown author, The New York Times(2000) Dolphin Whistles Offer Signs of Language Ability. New York Times,http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/05/science/dolphin-whistles-offer-signs-of-language-ability.html?scp=6&sq=dolphin%20communication&st=cse

Works Cited
Napoli(2003). Language: The Human Ability
Language Matters , p80-81