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vocal-auditory,
tacticle-visual,
or chemical-olfactory |
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| Message does not linger in time or space after production |
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| Individuals who use a language can both send and receive any permissible message within that communciation system |
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| users of a language can perceive what they are transmitting and can make corrections if they make errors |
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| the direct-energetic consequences of linguistic signals are usually biologically trivial;only the triggering effects are important |
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| there are associative ties between signal elements and features in the world; in short, some linguistic forms have denotations |
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| there is no logical connection between the form of the signal and its meaning |
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| messages in the system are made up of smaller, repeatable parts; the sounds of language (or cheremes of a sign) are perceived categorically, not continuously |
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| linguistic messages may refer to things remote in time and space, or both, from the site of the communication |
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| users can create and understand completely novel messages |
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| In a language, new messages are freely coined by blending, analogizing from, or transforming old ones. This says that every language has ____. |
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In a language, either new or old elements are freely assigned new semantic loads by circumstances and context. This says that in every language new _______ constantly come into existence
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| the conventions of a language are learned by interacting with more experienced users |
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| a large number of meaningful elements are made up of a conveniently small number of meaningless but message-differentiating elements |
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| linguistic messages can be false, deceptive, or meaningless |
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| In a language, one can communicate about communication |
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| A speaker of a language can learn another language |
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| "There is ...a sense in which [productivity],displacement, and duality... can be regarded as the crucial, or nuclear, or central properites of human language." |
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