Properties of Language

Question 1

Displacement

Answer 1

We can learn about things in the past present and future. Dog can only growl about the mailman right then.

Question 2

Arbitrariness

Answer 2

No inherant connection between linguistic form and its meaning. A piano doesn’t look like the word piano.
2 exceptions. onomatapoeia: the word looks how it sounds. Sound symbolism: i in words like tiny, ity, bity all suggest that it is small.

Question 3

Productivity (Creativity)

Answer 3

produce and understand what we have never heard before. I hate cats and I love you is possible for a 2 year to say i hate you.

Question 4

Cultural Transmission

Answer 4

Humans raised by dogs will speak dog but dogs raised with humans dont speak human.

Question 5

Discreteness

Answer 5

We can hear minute differences between words like sit and zit. Also, we hear individual words in a sentance and not just a long blurb.