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Design Featurs of Language
Symbolic (arbitrary)
DISCRETE combinatorial system
allows unbound CREATIVITY
allows DISPLACEMENT
spontaneously acquired via comb of EXPOSURE (environment) and INNATE capacity for language
sign, iconic, symbolic
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
DCS (discrete combinatorial system)
finite number of DISCRETE elements can be combines and permuted to create larger structures
Unbounded creativity
new messages on any topic can be produced at any time. infinite number of messages
displacement
ability to refer to events remote in space and time
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