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• Wherever humans exist, language exist.
• There are no “primitive languages” -all languages are equally complex and equally capable of

  expressing any idea.
• The relationships between the sounds and meanings of spoken languages and between the gestures and

  meanings of sign languages are for the most part arbitrary.
• All human languages utilize a finite set of discrete sounds (or gestures)that are combined to form meaningful elements or words,which maybe combined to form an infinite set of possible sentences.
• All grammars contain rules for the formation of words and sentences of a similar kind.
• Every spoken language includes discrete sound segments, like p,n or a, that can all be defined by a

  finite set of sound properties or features.
• Every spoken language has a class of vowels and a class of consonants.
• Similar grammatical categories (e.g., noun, verb ) are found in all languages.

  9. Every language has a way of referring to past time, negating, forming questions, i
• Similar grammatical categories (e.g., noun, verb ) are found in all languages.
• Every language has a way of referring to past time, negating, forming questions, issuing commands,

  and so on.
• Speakers of all languages are capable of producing and comprehending an infinite set of sentences.
• Any typically developing child, born anywhere in the world, of any racial, geographical, social, or economic heritage, is capable of learning any language to which he or she is exposed.
• There are semantic universals such as "male"or "female", "animate" or 'inanimate", found in every language in the world.
• Language is primarily oral.