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Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics
1.1 Why study language?
1. Language is very essential to human beings.
2. In language there are many things we should know.
3. For further understanding, we need to study language
scientifically.
1.2 What is language?
1.3 Design features of language
The features that define our human languages can be called
design features which can distinguish human language from any
animal system of communication.