Linguistic Task with solution

Task n°01:

a- Put « True » or « False» and correct the false one :

1-Language is a set of signs only.	False	language as a formal system of signs governed by grammatical rules of combination to communicate meaning.
2- Language is meant for communication.	True
3- Human Language has the same components of other creatures’ languages.	False	Human Language has not the same components of other creatures’ languages.
4-Human language develops.	True
5- Animal language is dual.	False	Animal language is not dual besides that Researchers say that animals, non-humans, do not have a true language like humans. However they do communicate with each other through sounds and gestures.

b- Definitions of the following concepts are mixed up except one, rearrange them accordingly.

a- Definitions of the following concepts are mixed up except one, rearrange them accordingly.

· Arbitrariness: Language is passed from one language user to the next, consciously or unconsciously.

ð Arbitrariness: There is not necessarily a rational relationship between a sound or sign and its meaning, i.e., symbolism. (There is nothing intrinsically "housy" about the word "house".

· Cultural transmission: There is not necessarily a rational relationship between a sound or sign and its meaning, i.e., symbolism. (There is nothing intrinsically "housy" about the word "house

ð Cultural transmission: Language is passed from one language user to the next, consciously or unconsciously..

· Discreteness: Languages can be used to communicate ideas about things that are not in the immediate vicinity either spatially or temporally, or both.

ð Discreteness : Language is composed of discrete units that are used in combination to create meaning

· Displacement: Language is composed of discrete units that are used in combination to create meaning.

ð Displacement : Languages can be used to communicate ideas about things that are not in the immediate vicinity either spatially or temporally, or both.

· Duality: Ability to discuss language itself

ð Duality : A finite number of units can be used to create an indefinitely large number of utterances.

· Metalinguistics:. Language works on two levels at once, a surface level and a semantic (meaningful) level.

ð Metalinguitics : correct.

· Productivity: A finite number of units can be used to create an indefinitely large number of utterances.

ð Productivity : Ability to discuss language itself

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Task n°02:

Match concepts and their correspondent definitions

1-knowledge		A)- any splitting of a whole into exactly two non-overlapping parts.
2-science		B)-part of Language which ‘is not complete in any individual, but exists only in the collectivity.
3- linguistics		C)-vertical substitional relations between items.
4-langue		D)-concrete realization of the language system
5-signifier		E)-the scientific study of language.
6-parole		F)-studying the language as it is (or was) at any particular point in time
7-structuralism		G)-linear horizontal combinatorial relations between items.
8-diachronic		H)-studying the language through time.
9-synchronic		I)-a stock of experiences at the reach of every human being.
10- dichotomy		K)-a sound side and a meaning side
11-paradigmatic		L)-A methodological specific part of knowledge that has a subject of study.
12-syntagmatic		M)-The study of relations that exist between language items.