Displacement - The property of language that allows users to talk about things and events not present in the immediate environment, Arbitrariness - The concept that is not inherent connection between linguistics signs and their meanings, Productivity - The capacity of language users to create and understand an infinite number of novel sentences, Duality - The characteristic of language that organizes sounds into two levels. individual sounds (phonemes) and combinations of sounds that create meaning (morphemes), Reflexivity - The ability of language to be used to discuss and analyzed, Prevariation - The potential within language to be used for deception or conveying false information, Learnability - The feature of language that allows users to learn additional language beyond their native tongue, Divine source - The theory that language originated from a divine being or higher power granting humans ability to speak, Natural source - The hypothesis that language develop from humans imitating natural sounds in their environment, Social interaction  - The idea that language evolved from the need for social cooperation interaction among humans, Physical adaptation - The theory suggesting that physical changes on humans, such as upright posture and vocal tract development, facilitated the emergence of language, Tool-making source - The preposition that the cognitive processes involved in tool-making contributed to the development of complex language structures, The genetic source - The belief that humans possess an innate, genetic capacity for language acquisition, Phonetics - The study of the physical sounds of human speech, Phonology - The study of how sounds function within a particular language or languages, Morphology - The analysis of structure and formation of words, Syntax - The study of sentences structure and the rules that govern the construction of sentences, Semantics - The analysis of meaning in language, including word meanings and sentences meanings, Pragmatics - The study of how context influences the interpretation of meaning in language, Animal communication - The methods by which non-human pieces communicate, often lacking the complexity and features of human language, Coinage - Invention of new words, Borrowing - Taking words from other languages, Compounding - Joining two separate words to produce one, Blending - Two separate forms to produce a single new term, Clipping - a reduction of a word, Blackformation - Create a new word removing the affix., Conversion - Words acting as a Noun come to be used as a Verb., Derivation - Add an affix to an existent word,

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