Often referred to as a design feature of language, ________ enables speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences that they have neither spoken nor heard before. ( )

fossilization

Define with examples phonemic contrast, allophone and complementary distribution. What is the basic way to determine the phonemes of a language?

Describe with examples the lexical loss which occurred in Old English and Middle English. Do you think the loss of words inevitable? What do you think of the process of lexical loss?

interpersonal communication

internal borrowing

social dialects

embedded clause

predication

directives

compounding