Introduction to Linguistics

1- Provide a short definition to the following design features of communication

a- Discreteness:

b- Productivity:

c- Rapid fading:

2- Comment on De Saussures statement: Language is a social convention.

3- Human language is more complex than any other system of communication.

Support this statement with reference to some of the functions language performs
in human life.

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