SLHS 309 Purdue Exam 1|70 Review | Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified

What is language? - ️️a systematic and conventional use of sounds (or signs or written symbols) for the purpose of communication or self-expression Arbitrariness - ️️no "natural" connection between form and meaning. Displacement - ️️can be about things distant in space and time. Productivity - ️️can create an infinite number of new utterances with a finite set of meaningful symbols. EX: take a few already meaningful words to create new sentences/phrases duality of patterning - ️️Meaningless parts of language can be recombined in a systematic way to create new forms EX: Brunch, UN-stoppable Semanticity - ️️specific signals can be matched with specific meanings Cultural Transmission - ️️learned in the context of social interactions. Component of language: Phonetics/ phonology - ️️the sound system of language