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Chp 1 I. Blank filling 1. Langue refers to the _____ linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community; parole refers to the _____ of langue in actual use. 2. Chomsky defines competence as the ideal user’s_____ of the rules of his language, and performance, the actual _____ of this knowledge in linguistic communication. 3. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. This quotation from Shakespeare illustrates that language has the design feature of _____. 4. The property of _____ of language provides a speaker with an opportunity to talk about a wide range of things, free from barriers caused by separation in time and place. 5. Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures, one of_____, and the other of_____. This double articulation of language enables its users to talk about anything within their knowledge. II. T-F choice 1. Linguistics can be defined as the scientific study of a particular language. 2. Language is arbitrary by nature but it is not completely arbitrary. 3. We can use the word “word” to talk about a word, we can talk about “talk”, we can think about “thinking”, this shows that language has a metalingual function. III. Answer questions. 1. What features of human language have been specified by C. Hockett to show that it is essentially different from any animal communication system? Chp 2 1. The difference between a consonant and a vowel lies in whether there is air _______in the production of them. 2. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called ______, which is a feature of all vowels and some consonants. 3. Two ways to transcribe speech sounds are available, broad transcription and narrow tra