CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Artificial Language, Computer Language, Zoosemiotics
29 May 2015
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Language has to descriptions as functional and structural description. Functional description - language is a complex code by which agents can communicate information. When we say complex we are not referring to animal language such as bird calls. Structural description - language is a set of symbols that can be arranged in a certain way, also known to the english language as words and sentences. Some forms of language include: natural language, artificial language and computer language. Natural language - natural language is language that is created by the culture of humans. Artificial language - artificial language is language that is created by small teams and individuals. Computer language - computer language is language that is created as a artificial language for communications with computers, it typically lacks in ambiguity. The vervet monkeys used different calls to alert the other monkeys of the different predators. the honeybee"s use a waggle dance to signal where food is relative to the sun.
