Animal Quote by Noam Chomsky

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That…

— Jeff Stilson

In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to…

— Noam Chomsky

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may…

— Jeff Stilson

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the…

— Richard Dawkins

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans…

— Temple Grandin

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution.…

— Noam Chomsky

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna