By ___ we mean language is resourceful because of its duality and recursiveness.

Ch 1 Invitation to linguistics

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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arbitrariness
conventionality
creativity
displacement
2.
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Idioms are products of ___ of language.
conventionality
arbitrariness
creativity
duality
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"I can refer to Confucius even though he was dead 2,000 years ago." This shows that language has the design feature of ___.
arbitrariness
creativity
duality
displacement
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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___ investigates the interrelation of language and mind, in processing and producing utterances and in language acquisition.
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Anthropological linguistics
Computational linguistics
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Human language is ___. This refers to the fact that there is no logical or intrinsic connection between a particular sound and the meaning it is associated with.
dual
arbitrary
creative
conventional
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If a linguist tells people "what should be in language" or "what people should say", he is ___.
directive
descriptive
expressive
prescriptive
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The most important sociological use of language is the ___ function by which people establish and maintain their status in a society.
performative
interpersonal
phatic
metalingual
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