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  • Turn taking is evident even in babies. True or False?
    True
  • What is semanticity related to?
    The meaning of words and combination of words.
  • Humans are not the only ones who have a vocal tract that enables the speech sounds production. True or False?
    False
  • What is duality of patterning?
    The ability to create larger linguistic units from a limited set of speech sounds.
  • What is prevarication?
    The ability to withhold information or give falso information (lies).
  • What is the feature related to how phonemes are perceived?
    Discreteness
  • What is displacement?
    The ability to talk about what is not happening right now right here because of the sense of time and place.
  • What is productivity?
    It refers to the ability to combine words in an infinite number of ways and the capacity to create new ones.
  • What is arbitrariness?
    It's about the fact that there is no connection between the word and its meaning.
  • Onomatopoeic words are arbitrary, True or False?
    False
  • Language depends on a structure to convey meaning. True or False?
    True
  • What is stimulus freedom?
    It's the ability to use language spontaneously, without a given stimulus.
  • What is metalanguage?
    It's the language that is used to talk about language itself.
  • The ability to create larger linguistic units out of a limited set of speech sounds is called duality of patterning. True or False?
    True
  • What is redundancy?
    Languages use more time and space than is necessary to encode information.
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