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Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language ReviewProfessor Anderson asserts that Dr. Dolittle might have been able to 'talk to animals' but they could not talk back. I enjoyed Rex Harrison as the kindly animal doc in the Disney movie, and the song in particular. He points out that it was Hugh Lofting's 'fictional' character who could communicate perhaps with all of his animal friends, but they, in turn, were unable to use intelligible language.I've owned cats on a daily basis for more than twenty-five years now and they do talk to me. They do understand English (I swear) and their meows mean something as well. It's just that I don't know 'cat talk.' It's not merely a response; when Star awakens from a dream, she runs to me with a whole string of meows to be soothed. I explain that it was only a dream and she settles down right away. It's all in the interpretations, usually they want your attention, food, or could be informing you that something may be wrong. She lets me know when she hears an unusual sound. And she minds me real well.
He discusses sign language as a way of communicating with gestures called 'signing,' that apes possibly use a similar way of getting what they need. Frogs make their distinct noises, birds sing, bees buzz and 'dance.' Some birds can talk and mimic humans, but I'm not sure they know what they're doing; it appears they are 'entertaining' to get people's attention.
Understanding of the minds of others emerges in human infancy. Austistic children lack this ability of comprehension. Language skills require interaction with early experience and the autistic child can not express his needs verbally.
Human language is indeed unique, but sometimes regional dialects get in the way. There are so many foreigners in America today, they don't even try to speak English. Why should they? We all talk differently and can hardly understand each other. I remember while growing up in Knoxville that I and my idol, Bob Lobertini (a t.v. personality), had trouble pronouncing the "L" sound. We just left it out. Recently at a dinner, I heard a grown woman call 'salmon' 'samon' and I commented on it. Just because I moved away and learned to enunciate clearly instead of shy mumbling, the natives here assume I'm from "up North." I certainly don't sound like a New Yorker or Pennsylvanian, but I do talk differently -- as we all tend to speak the way we hear others talk, and it "rubs off" after awhile.
It takes intelligence to work through the ambiguities of phrases as units instead of words fitted together to form a sentence. If you move a phrase, it can cause a different meaning to the whole thing, or can clear up any misunderstanding. Many English expressions are ambiguous. But so are the verbs in another language. That's what trips me up.Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language Overview
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