精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上语言学导论期末复习提纲CHAPTER ONE1. What is language? LANGUAGE is a means of verbal communication. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.2. What are design features of language? Arbitrariness: the forms of linguistic signs bear no relationship to their meaning. Duality: the property of having two levels of structures, such that units of the primary level are composed of elements of the secondary level and each of the two le
