Exploring Linguistic Abilities
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According to Hackett's terms, what does 'openness' refer to?

  • The ability to talk about absent or nonexistent things and past or future events
  • The ability to understand the same thing from other points of view (correct)
  • The free, creative production of new links between sounds and meanings
  • The ability to think about, speak about, and do different things in the same way or the same thing in different ways

    • What is the reason for the existence of so many human languages compared to fixed non-human languages?

  • The ability to think about, speak about, and do different things in the same way or the same thing in different ways
  • Arbitrariness - no universal link between particular linguistic sounds and meanings
  • The free, creative production of new links between sounds and meanings (correct)
  • Displacement - the ability to talk about absent or nonexistent things and past or future events

    • What does 'displacement' refer to in the context of language?

  • The ability to talk about absent or nonexistent things and past or future events (correct)
  • The ability to understand the same thing from other points of view
  • No universal link between particular linguistic sounds and meanings
  • The free, creative production of new links between sounds and meanings

    • What does 'arbitrariness' refer to in the context of language?

    <p>No universal link between particular linguistic sounds and meanings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the study of language in the context of its use called?

    <p>Pragmatics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Hackett's terms, what does 'openness' refer to?

    <p>The ability to understand the same thing from other points of view</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the free, creative production of new links between sounds and meanings?

    <p>Arbitrariness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the ability to think about, speak about, and do different things in the same way or the same thing in different ways?

    <p>Patterning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the ability to talk about absent or nonexistent things and past or future events?

    <p>Displacement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the study of language in the context of its use?

    <p>Pragmatics</p> Signup and view all the answers

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