The Nature of Language: Arbitrariness and Communication

To make sentences shorter and simpler

To restrict which items can occur together and their order (correct)

To allow for unlimited word combinations

To introduce chaos into language structure

Ignoring the arrangement of words in a sentence

Relying on external factors for sentence meaning

Depending on the number of words in a sentence

Understanding the internal structure of a sentence (correct)

An unrelated collection of sounds

Words exist independently of each other

A network where each word derives meaning from other words (correct)

A random assortment of words

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