Language Is a Highly Efficient System in Which We Produce

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Multiple Choice

Language is a highly efficient system in which we produce language from a set of elements and rules combining them into speech.This is known as the:

• A) vocalization property of language.
• B) semantic content of language.
• C) speech content of language.
• D) generative property of language.

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Definitions:

Substantive Law

The set of laws that governs how members of a society are to behave. It defines rights and responsibilities in civil law, and crimes and punishments in criminal law.

Private Law

The rules that govern our personal, social, and business relations, which are enforced by one person’s suing another in a private or civil action

Procedural Law

The law determining how the substantive laws will be enforced, including the rules governing arrest and criminal investigation, or pre-trial and court processes in both criminal and civil cases.

Roman Civil Law

The law of the Roman Empire, from which the common law drew its concepts of property and possessions.