Semanticity is one of
Charles Hockett
Charles Francis Hockett (January 17, 1916 – November 3, 2000) was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics. He represents the post- Bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as ...
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design features of language Hockett's Design Features are a set of features that characterize human language and set it apart from animal communication. They were defined by linguist Charles F. Hockett in the 1960s. He called these characteristics the design features of langua ...
. Semanticity refers to the use of arbitrary or nonarbitrary signals to transmit meaningful messages.
[Hockett, C. F. (1960)]
The origin of speech
. ''Scientific American'', 203:2.
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Hockett's design features
References
Language acquisition
Semantics
Linguistic universals
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