"Oinkers Oink and Talkers Talk, Talkers Don't Talk"----Introduction

Yule states "Humans are continually creating new expressions and novel utterances by manipulating their linguistic resources to describe new objects and situations. This property is described as productivity and it is linked to the fact that the potential number of utterances in any human language is infinite"(10). You might ask yourself what exactly does this mean? Well, this quote supports the theory of humans and animals not being able to communicate due to the fact that humans have a far more complex language that animals cannot understand. Animals communicate with one another by motions and noises such as grunts, growls, and purrs. These ways of communication are simply just not advanced enough to communicate with humans as humans use emotion, expression, and complex verbal skills to communicate. Humans and animals both have languages and ways of communication but these languages are completely different as animals are not able to communicate with humans.