Chapter 3

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    • Human language occurs as a vocal type of communicaton, which is perceived by hearing.
      Vocal-Auditory Channel
    • Human language signals when sent can be perceived in limited directions through sent in all directions
      Broadcast Transmission and Directional Reception
    • Language is produced openly and can be heard by multiple individuals
      Broadcast Transmission and Directional Reception
    • Speech wave forms fade rapidly which is why the human language signal does not persist over time
      Rapid fading
    • Utterances are brief and transient, not permanent
      Rapid fading
    • Speaker can receive and send the same signal
      Interchangeability
    • Speakers can both produce and comprehend messages
      Interchangeability
    • Hearing ourselves while we speak
      Total feedback
    • Humans have different organs, and each organ has its own specific function in speech
      Specialization
    • For every signal there is a corresponding
      Semanticity
    • There is no necessary connectio to the form and the thing assigned to
      Arbitrariness
    • The basic speech units can be categorized. There is no gradual continuous shading from one sound to another
      Discreteness
    • Humans can talk about things that are not physically present or that do not even exist. Speakers can talk about the past, future, and can express hopes and dreams
      Displacement
    • Refers to idea that language users can create and understand novel utterances. Humans are able to produce an unlimited amount of utterances.
      Productivity
    • While humans are born with innate language capabilities, language is learned after birth in a social setting ; Crucial in the human acquisition process
      Traditional Transmission
    • Meaningful messages are made up of distinct smaller meaningful units (words and morphemes) which themselves are made up of distinct smaller, meaningless units (phonemes)
      The Duality Of Patterning
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