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— PAGE PAGE 2 欢迎下载 语言学作业 班级： 姓名： Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics I. Please illustrate the following terms. 1. Arbitrariness: The forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning. The different levels of arbitrariness: (1) Arbitrary relationship between the sound of a morpheme and its meaning, even with onomatopoeic words (2) Arbitrariness at the syntactic level: language is not arbitrary at the syntactic level. (3) The link between a linguistic sign and its meaning is a matter of convention. 2. Duality The property of having two levels of structur