speaking skills of english about animals
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Answer:
A talking animal or speaking animal is any non-human animal that can produce sounds or gestures resembling those of a human language.
Explanation:
The term refers to animals which can imitate (though not necessarily understand) human speech. Parrots, for example, repeat phrases of human speech through exposure. It is a form of anthropomorphism to call this simple repeating a language, as it has no semantic grounding. However there were parrots that learnt to use words in proper context and had meaningful dialogues with humans. Alex, an African grey, understood questions about color, shape, size, number etc. of objects and would provide a one-word answer to them. He is also documented to have asked an existential question. Another grey parrot, N'kisi, could use 950 words in proper context, was able to form sentences and even understood the concept of grammatical tense.
Researchers have attempted to teach great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans) spoken language with poor results as they can only be taught how to say one or a few basic or limited words or phrases or less, and sign language with significantly better results as they can be very creative with various hand signals like those of deaf people. In this regard, there are now numerous studies and an extensive bibliography. However, even the best communicating great ape has shown an inability to grasp the idea of syntax and grammar, instead communicating at best at the same level as a pidgin language in humans.[citation needed] They are expressive and communicative, but lack the formality that remains unique to human speech.[citation needed]
Research supports the idea that the linguistic limitations in animals are due to limited general brainpower (as opposed to lack of a specific module),[citation needed] and that words are created by breaking down sentences into pieces, making grammar more basic than semantics.