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Human language has 10 key characteristics that distinguish it from animal communication systems: 1. It has duality of patterning - language operates at the phonological and syntactical levels through a system of conventional symbols. 2. It uses a discrete symbolic system based on arbitrary conventions rather than analog signals. 3. It has grammar that allows for an infinite number of sentences to be formed from a finite set of words. 4. It is species-specific to humans and uniformly possessed by all

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Vince Luigi Zepeda

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