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Characteristic of Human Language Human language is language that is used by human and different with animal language. These are characteristics of human language: 1. Vocal Auditory Channel: human language has speaker and hearer. It will not be a communication if there are not one of speaker and hearer. 2. Broadcast transmission and directional reception: human language signal is sent out in all directions, while it is perceived in a limited direction.

3. Rapid fading: human language can only receive specific auditory information at the time it is spoken 4. Interchangeability: of language can be speaker and hearer, together, at the same time or not. 5. Total : this means that the speaker can hear themself speak and can monitor their language performance as they go.

6. Form meaning unity: human language has forms. 7. Specialization: human language can be expressed in many situation of communication. 8. Arbitrariness: human language has system that has no logically reason. Example: there is reason why we have to call “dog”, the reason is only because the community of human agree with that. 9. Discreteness: human language shows the differences in speech. 10. Displacement: human language never attached by time and place. We can talk about something that is far away from us and also talk about something happens in the past or future. 11. Productivity and creativity: human language is dynamic, always grow always increased. 12. Cultural transmission: human language can be learned by new . (Human language as social tool) 13. Duality patterning: human language sometimes has pattern and meaning more than one.