Hockett’s “DesignFeatures of

Human Spoken Language”

9. Discreteness 16.Learnability
(Linguistic representations can be broken
down into small discrete units , e.g. (the speaker of one language can learn
vocabulary, which combine with each another)
other in rule-governed ways)

10.Displacement
(the communication system can be used to
refer to things remote in time and space) 15.Reflectiveness
(Humans can use language to talk about
language, just as this book is doing)

11.Openness 14.Prevarication
(the ability to invent new messages) (language provides us with the ability to
lie, deceive, or make meaningless
statements)
This Mind Map was done by:
Lina Almutairi 442003261 13.Duality of patterning
Shatha Alotaibe 442001323 (human language can be analyzed on two levels:
Ahad Alqahtani 442000179 12.Tradition 1) As made up of meaningless elements; i.e., a limited
Rowaida Alshamrani inventory of sounds or phonemes
(the language can be taught and learned).
442002903 2) As made up of meaningful elements; i.e., a virtually
limitless inventory of words or morphemes.)