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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/Charles Hockett, one of the most outstanding linguists, is the author of the best definition of a language. According to this definition a given species can be said to be using a language if it satisfies the following three groups of conditions: (1)-using the verbal channel, arbitrariness, and semantics; (2)- cultural background, spontaneous language usage, and using a dialog; (3)- structural dualism, speech autonomy, and creativity. Therefore, animals do use a language, for scientists have proven that they, indeed, satisfy all the above conditions.