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Design Featurs of Language
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Symbolic (arbitrary)
DISCRETE combinatorial system allows unbound CREATIVITY allows DISPLACEMENT spontaneously acquired via comb of EXPOSURE (environment) and INNATE capacity for language |
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sign, iconic, symbolic
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sign - form of SIGNIFIER and the thing being SIGNIFIED (meaning)
iconic - form of the signifier resembles the meaning symbolic - relationship between form of signifier and meaning is arbitrary |
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DCS (discrete combinatorial system)
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finite number of DISCRETE elements can be combines and permuted to create larger structures
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Unbounded creativity
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new messages on any topic can be produced at any time. infinite number of messages
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displacement
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ability to refer to events remote in space and time
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Week 10000
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WEEK 1110000
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Why do
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f
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