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A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.
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A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time
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The study of signs is termed as_________?
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In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?
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__________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situations’
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The system of communication within a community.
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A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.
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The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?
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Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?
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There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.
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