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What are the main properties of language?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

According to the ____ hypothesis, readers make inferences based only on information that is easily available to them and then only when they need to make such inferences to make sense of adjoining sentences.
 
  a. low-effort
  b. simplistic
 c. minimalist
  d. basics


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Language is:
1 . Communicative: Language permits us to communicate with one or more people who share our language.
2 . Arbitrarily symbolic: Language creates an arbitrary relationship between a symbol and what it represents: an idea, a thing, a process, a relationship, or a description.
3 . Regularly structured: Language has a structure; only particularly patterned arrangements of symbols have meaning, and different arrangements yield different meanings.
4 . Structured at multiple levels: The structure of language can be analyzed at more than one level (e.g., in sounds, meaning units, words, and phrases).
5 . Generative, productive: Within the limits of a linguistic structure, language users can produce novel utterances. The possibilities for creating new utterances are virtually limitless.
6 . Dynamic: Languages constantly evolve.

Answer to Question 2

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