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Properties of human language

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    Properties of human language
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  • Allows language to be used to think and talk about language itself.
    Reflexivity
    Arbitrariness
    Duality
    Productivity
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  • Allows users to talk about something not present in the immediate environment.
    Cultural transmission
    Displacement
    Duality
    Productivity
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  • There is no natural iconic connection between a linguistic form and its meaning.
    Arbitrariness
    Productivity
    Reflexivity
    Displacement
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  • Allows users to create new expressions.
    Duality
    Productivity
    Arbitrariness
    Cultural transmission
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  • Language is acquired in a culture with other speakers and not from the parental genes
    Displacement
    Productivity
    Cultural transmission
    Arbitrariness
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  • Language is organized in two layers simultaneously, sounds of alphabet and meaning of words.
    Creativity
    Duality
    Reflexivity
    Displacement
  •  20
  • Which of the properties of human language does the picture represent?
    Cultural transmission
    Displacement
    Productivity
    Duality
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  • Which property of language does the picture represent?
    Duality
    Productivity
    Arbitrariness
    Displacement
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  • Which property of human language does the picture represent?
    Duality
    Displacement
    Arbitrariness
    Productivity
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  • Which property of human language does this example represent?
    Productivity
    Cultural transmission
    Displacement
    Arbitrariness
  •  20
  • Look at the picture. Which property of human language is represented in it?
    Productivity
    Cultural transmission
    Arbitrariness
    Duality
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  • How many properties of human language are there?
    7
    8
    6
    5
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