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Properties of human language
While we tend to think of communication as the primary function of human language,
it is not a distinguishing feature. All creatures communicate in some way. However, we
suspect that other creatures are not reflecting on the way they create their communicative
messages or reviewing how they work (or not). That is, one barking dog is
probably not offering advice to another barking dog along the lines of “Hey, you should
lower your bark to make it sound more menacing.” They’re not barking about barking.
Humans are clearly able to reflect on language and its uses (e.g. “I wish he wouldn’t
use so many technical terms”). This is reflexivity. The property of reflexivity (or
“reflexiveness”) accounts for the fact that we can use language to think and talk
about language itself, making it one of the distinguishing features of human language.
Indeed, without this general ability, we wouldn’t be able to reflect on or identify any of
the other distinct properties of human language. We’ll look in detail at another five of
them: displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, cultural transmission and duality.

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人类语言的属性虽然我们倾向于认为交际是人类语言的主要功能，它不是一个明显的特征。所有的生物都以某种方式交流。然而，我们怀疑其他生物并没有反映他们创造他们的沟通方式消息或审查他们的工作（或不）。也就是说，一只叫狗的狗是可能不提供意见，另一条狗沿线的“嘿，你应该降低你的树皮使它听起来更具威胁性。“他们不吠叫吠叫。人类清楚地能够反映语言和它的用途（例如：“我希望他不会使用这么多的技术术语“）。这是自反性。反身性财产（或“自反性”）的事实，我们可以用语言来思考和说话的帐户关于语言本身，使它成为人类语言的一个显著特征。事实上，如果没有这个一般的能力，我们将无法反映或识别任何人类语言的另一种不同性质。我们将详细地看另一个五他们：位移、任意性、生产力、文化传播和对偶。