英语语言学概论-整理.docVIP

Chapter 1 Language语言 Design feature (识别特征) refers to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication. Productivity (能产性) refers to the ability that people have in making and comprehending indefinitely large quantities of sentences in their native language. arbitrariness (任意性) Arbitrariness refers to the phenomenon that there is no motivated relationship between a linguistic form and its meaning. symbol (符号) Symbol refers to something such as an object, word, or sound that represents something else by association or convention. discrete