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Features of human languange by Hocket

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which one doesn't belong in Hockett's design future?

a)

Transitoriness

b)

Total feedback

c)

Assonance

d)

Semanticity

2.

it is a feature of language where natural language is vocally transmitted by speakers as speech sounds and auditorily received by listeners as speeach waves...

a)

interchangeabillity

b)

vocal-auditory language

c)

transitoriness

d)

semanticity

3.

A speaker can control, modify and feel what he says, as he says it. It

goes for signals as well..

a)

total feedback

b)

discreetness

c)

reflexiveness

d)

spealization

4.

Hockett began his teaching career in 1946 as an assistant professor of linguistics in the Division of Modern Languages at Cornell University where he was responsible for...

a)

english language program

b)

japanese language program

c)

english literature program

d)

chinese language program

5.

How many Hockett features were created for the first time?

a)

11

b)

14

c)

13

d)

16

6.

What does productivity mean?

a)

productivity is humans can use speech language in order to talk about language.

b)

productivity js through speech language a speaker is able to form a new sentence

c)

productivity is the sound waves we created while speaking vanishes quickly after we stop using speech language

d)

productivity is basic units of speech, which can be categorized. The words are perceived categorizingly, and not continuesly

7.

How many features are there in Hockett's design features?

a)

11

b)

14

c)

13

d)

16

8.

We can say things that are false or hypothetical...

a)

prevarication

b)

learnability

c)

reflexivenes

d)

interchangeability

9.

Which of Charles Hockett’s sixteen design features of language refers to the ability to talk about absent or nonexistent objects?

a)

Arbitariness

b)

Displacement

c)

Openness

d)

Semanticity

10.

Which one doesn't belong in Hockett's achivement?

a)

Responding to the Great Recession. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

b)

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences

c)

The National Academy of Sciences

d)

The Society of Fellows at Harvard University