Hockett's design features

Question 1

vocal-auditory channel

Answer 1

sound is percieved through the auditory channel

Question 2

Broadcast transmission and directional reception

Answer 2

language is percieved as coming from one particular location

Question 3

rapid fading

Answer 3

Sound produced by speech fades quickly

Question 4

interchangeability

Answer 4

user of language can send and recieve the same message

Question 5

total feedback

Answer 5

sender can hear and internalize the message they have sent

Question 6

Specialization

Answer 6

the production of the sound serves only to communicate

Question 7

Semanticity

Answer 7

fixed associations between units of language and aspects of the world

Question 8

Arbitrarness

Answer 8

associations between language and the world are arbitrair

Question 9

Discreteness

Answer 9

units of language are sperate and distrinct

Question 10

displacement

Answer 10

language can be used to communicate about things not present

Question 11

Productivity

Answer 11

language can be used to say things that have never been said before, yet understandable

Question 12

Traditional transmission

Answer 12

Learned by exposure, bnot genetic transmission

Question 13

Duality of patteringin

Answer 13

meaningful units are made by combing a small number of elements into various sequences

Question 14

prevarication

Answer 14

language can deliberately be used to make false statements

Question 15

Reflexiveness

Answer 15

language can be used to refer or to describe itself

Question 16

Learnability

Answer 16

users of one language can learn to use a different one