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The design features of language

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What is prevarication?

The ability to withhold information or give falso information (lies).

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What is displacement?

The ability to talk about what is not happening right now right here because of the sense of time and place.

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What is stimulus freedom?

It's the ability to use language spontaneously, without a given stimulus.

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The ability to create larger linguistic units out of a limited set of speech sounds is called duality of patterning. True or False?

True

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What is arbitrariness?

It's about the fact that there is no connection between the word and its meaning.

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Onomatopoeic words are arbitrary, True or False?

False

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Turn taking is evident even in babies. True or False?

True

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What is redundancy?

Languages use more time and space than is necessary to encode information.

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What is the feature related to how phonemes are perceived?

Discreteness

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What is semanticity related to?

The meaning of words and combination of words.

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Language depends on a structure to convey meaning. True or False?

True

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What is metalanguage?

It's the language that is used to talk about language itself.

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What is productivity?

It refers to the ability to combine words in an infinite number of ways and the capacity to create new ones.

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Humans are not the only ones who have a vocal tract that enables the speech sounds production. True or False?

False

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What is duality of patterning?

The ability to create larger linguistic units from a limited set of speech sounds.

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