01.Introduction(3a)-Featuresofhumanlanguage.pptVIP

Review What is linguistics? What does it study? In your opinion, what is the use of linguistics? Design features of human language “Design features” define a thing and tell it from other things. Main features of human language: Arbitrariness Duality Creativity/productivity Displacement Arbitrariness (任意性)? The connection between linguistic signs and their referents are not intrinsic. Duality of structure (结构二重性)? The human language system has two levels of structure (sound meaning), each having its own principles of organization.A sound is meaningfulonly if it comes togetherwith other soun