Understanding the Key Properties of Human Language
Explore essential properties of human language such as learnability, arbitrariness, medium transfer ability, discreteness, duality, and dynamism. Learn why humans can learn any language, the concept of arbitrariness in language, the ability to transfer between mediums, the distinctness of sounds in language, the double patterning of language, and the dynamic nature of language evolution.
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Lesson Three Part two Properties of Human Language
n5-Learnability We (Humans)can learn any language Why How Any human Language is learnable
When we pronounce the word house Arbitrariness House It has nothing to do with the shape of a house In General(common meaning , or dictionary) Arbitrariness is the quality of being "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle In linguistics, arbitrariness is the absence of any natural or necessary connection between a word's meaning and its sound or form. An antithesis to sound symbolism, which does exhibit an apparent connection between sound and sense, arbitrariness is one of the characteristics shared between all languages. "the overwhelming presence of arbitrariness in language is the chief reason it takes so long to learn the vocabulary of a foreign language." arbitrariness--the absence of any relationship between a word's form and its meaning. . . .
n7-Medium transfer Ability: We transfer from one medium to another *to read a written form *to write a spoken form
n8-Discreteness(distinctness) Human language consists of different units =sounds Each sound is distinct from one another This difference in pronunciation ,leads to a difference in meaning /p/ &/b/ in park and bark or pin and bin
n9) Duality:(double patterning) Human language is organized at two levels or layers simultaneously. This property is called duality (or 'double articulation'). In speech production, we have a physical level at which we can produce individual sounds, like n, b and i. As individual sounds, none of these discrete forms has any intrinsic meaning. In a particular combination such as bin, we have another level producing a meaning that is different from the meaning of the combination in nib. So, at one level, we have distinct sounds, and, at another level, we have distinct meanings.
n10)Dynamic: Language is a living thing and changes constantly
