Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?

Arbitrariness
B. Displacement
C. Duality
D. Meanigfulness

Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logic connection between _____ and meanings.

A. senses
B. sounds
C. objects
D. ideas

Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called _______.

A. displacement
B. duality
C. flexibilty
D. cultural transmission

One of the properties of language is that a language user can understand and produce sentences he/she has never heard before. This property of language is called ______.

A. duality
B. productivity
C. displacement
D. arbitrariness

The _______ function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favourable atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas.

A. phatic
B. directive
C. evocative
D. performative

In order to discover the nature and rules of underlying language system, what the linguist has to do first is to ___and ___language facts, which are found to display some ___, and ___ are made about them; then he ___some ___ about the language structure. But the hypotheses thus formed have to be checked repeatedly against the observed facts to fully prove their ___.

Linguistics studies particular language, not language in general.

A. 对
B. 错

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