Summary PSY 352 Week 5 Final.docx PSY 352 Questions in Psycholinguistics PSY 352: Cognitive Psychology Humans can communicate with each other in ways that are unique to our species because of the properties of human language. Regardless of how different human

PSY 352 Week 5 F PSY 352 Questions in Psycholinguistics PSY 352: Cognitive Psychology Humans can communicate with each other in ways that are unique to our species because of the properties of human language. Regardless of how different human language may sound across various culture they all share six qualities: The six properties of language, which are arbitrariness, cultural transmission, discreteness, displacement, duality, and productivity. Arbitrariness is when the words and symbols are used to denote objects are not inherently related to the objects they symbolize, Cultural Transmission is when language is acquired through culture such as when you grow up in a multilingual household you are more likely to pick up the languages spoken, Discreteness when the sounds within the language are considered their own, discrete sounds with their own distinct meanings, Displacement allows language users