37. How can a linguist make his analysis scientific?(青岛海洋大学,1999 [In the reference keys, I won't give examples or further analysis. That seems too much work for me. Therefore, this key is only for reference. In order to answer this kind of question, you need more examples. So you should read the textbook carefully. -icywarmtea 1-5 BACCC 6-10 BACAC 11-15 FFTFF 16-20 FFFFF III 21. verbal 22. productivity /creativity 23. metalingual function 24. yo-he-he 25 scientific 26. descriptive 27. speed 28. diachronic linguistic 29. langue competence Design feature: It refers to the defining properties of human language that tell the difference between human language and any system of animal communication Displacement: It means that human languages enable their users to symbolize objects. events and concepts, which are not present(in time and spaceat the moment of communication Competence: It is an essential part of performance. It is the speaker's knowledge of his or her language, that is, of its sound structure, its words, and its grammatical rules. Competence is, in a way, an encyclopedia of language. Moreover, the knowledge involved in competence is generally unconscious. A transformational-generative grammar is a model of competence 34. Synchronic linguistics: It refers to the study of a language at a given point in time. The me studied may be either the present or a particular point in the past; synchronic analyses can also be made of dead languages, such as Latin. Synchronic linguistics is contrasted with diachronic linguistics, the study of a language over a period of time Duality makes our language productive. A large number of different units can be formed out of a small number of elements - for instance tens of thousands of words out of a small set of sounds, round 48 in the case of the English language. And out of the huge number of words, there can be astronomical number of possible sentences and phrases, which in turn can combine to form unlimited number of texts. Most animal communication systems do not have this design feature of human language If language has no such design feature, then it will be like animal communicational system which ill be highly limited. It cannot produce a very large number of sound combinations, eg. words, which are distinct in mear37. How can a linguist make his analysis scientific? （青岛海洋大学，1999） Key: [In the reference keys, I won’t give examples or further analysis. That seems too much work for me. Therefore, this key is only for reference. In order to answer this kind of question, you need more examples. So you should read the textbook carefully. – icywarmtea] I. 1~5 BACCC 6~10 BACAC II. 11~15 FFTFF 16~20 FFFFF III. 21. verbal 22. productivity / creativity 23. metalingual function 24. yo-he-ho 25. scientific 26. descriptive 27. speech 28. diachronic linguistic 29. langue 30. competence IV. 31. Design feature: It refers to the defining properties of human language that tell the difference between human language and any system of animal communication. 32. Displacement: It means that human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts, which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of communication. 33. Competence: It is an essential part of performance. It is the speaker’s knowledge of his or her language; that is, of its sound structure, its words, and its grammatical rules. Competence is, in a way, an encyclopedia of language. Moreover, the knowledge involved in competence is generally unconscious. A transformational-generative grammar is a model of competence. 34. Synchronic linguistics: It refers to the study of a language at a given point in time. The time studied may be either the present or a particular point in the past; synchronic analyses can also be made of dead languages, such as Latin. Synchronic linguistics is contrasted with diachronic linguistics, the study of a language over a period of time. V. 35. Duality makes our language productive. A large number of different units can be formed out of a small number of elements – for instance, tens of thousands of words out of a small set of sounds, around 48 in the case of the English language. And out of the huge number of words, there can be astronomical number of possible sentences and phrases, which in turn can combine to form unlimited number of texts. Most animal communication systems do not have this design feature of human language. If language has no such design feature, then it will be like animal communicational system which will be highly limited. It cannot produce a very large number of sound combinations, e.g. words, which are distinct in meaning. 36