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Old 10-04-2011, 10:23 PM   #8013
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do you understand duality of patterning vs productivity vs discreteness???
yep from my memory theres 6 laws of human language proposed by hocket

stupid dark pigeons dont do crap (my mnemonic for memorizing em lol)


Semanticity is the idea that every word has a specific and direct relation to real world situations.

Displacement is the ability to talk about stuff outside of the current frame (ie. something happened in a different place/time).

Productivity is the ability to produce infinite number of original new sentences from a finite number of words/terms

Duality of patterning - ability to make meaningful statements from discrete segments. Pattern that is repeated at various levels of language ie. sounds > words. Words > sentences. Sentences > discourse.

Discreteness - Property of sounds/words that makes them contrastive from one another. You must have discrete words in order to have duality of patterning.

Cultural Transmission - kids learn from parents.


So much mammorizings.
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