Which of Hockett’s (1960) principles can be defined as ‘A small set of phonemes can be combined and recombined into an infinitely large set of meanings’?

A. Duality of function
B. Discreteness
C. Broadcast Transmission
D. Arbitrariness

A. Duality of function

Linguistics mcqs

LINGUISTICS
1. Intro to Language 2. Intro to Linguistics
3. Phonetics 4. Phonology
5. Morphology 6. Syntax
7. Semantics 8. Pragmatics
9. Stylistics 10. Applied Linguistics
11. Socio-Linguistics 12. Psycho-Linguistics
13. Discourse Analysis 14. Corpus

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