Human Natural Languages Seem to Follow a Duality of Patterning

question 38

Multiple Choice

Human natural languages seem to follow a duality of patterning, meaning that

• A) there is a direct translation for each idea from one language to another.
• B) sounds have the capacity to represent a wide variety of syntactic options and meanings.
• C) sounds combine into small meaningful units called morphemes, and those small units can combine into still larger phrases and sentences, conveying even more complex information.
• D) we are all capable of learning any language, given the right environment for encoding.

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