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Discuss any FOUR of the features of human language that distinguish it from animal communication system. 

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If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be d.

As traditional grammars aim to lay down rules for “correct” behavior，they are said to be p.

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D linguistics is the systematic description and elucidation of all linguistic changes through time. It studies the historical development of language over a period of time. For example, a study of the changes English has undergone since the time of Shakespeare would be a diachronic study.

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According to Chomsky, a speaker has internalized a set of r about his language, which enables him to produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences.

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M linguistics, unlike the linguistic study normally known as “grammar” which sets models and rules for language users to follow, is mostly descriptive, i. e. , it attempts to describe the language people actually use, be it “correct” or not.

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If a linguistic study aims to lay down rules for “correct” behavior, i.e., to tell people what they should say and what they should not, it is said to be p.

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​Modern linguistics gives priority to the sform of  language.

Similar to Saussure, Chomsky thinks that what linguists should study is the ideal speaker’s competence, not his p, which is too haphazard to be studied.

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Traditional grammarians tried to tell people what was good usage and what was bad usage by setting models for language users to follow. Thus their approach to the study of language was p.

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A d study of language is a historical study, which studies the development of language over a period of time. 

Chomsky defines p as the actual realization of the ideal user's knowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic communication.

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A synchronic study of language is a historical study.

Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false on the ANSWER SHEET for each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version.

Modern linguistics regards the spoken language as primary, not the written.

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With their respective distinction between language and parole, and competence and performance, both Saussure and Chomsky present the view that only the abstract structure of language can be studied systematically, but not its use.​

The distinction between langue and p was made by Swiss linguist F. de Saussure.

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S descriptions are often thought of as being descriptions of a language as it exists at the present day and most linguistic studies are of this type.

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Diachronic linguistics focuses on the description of language at some point in time while synchronic linguistics focuses on the description of language development through time.

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According to Chomsky, a speaker can produce and understand an unlimited number of sentences because he possesses an internalized set of rules about his language. 

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​While Saussure took a sociological view of language, Chomsky looks at language from a psychological point of view.