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What is language? What are the basic principles of language?

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The definition of language is made up from several parts. Those parts are a characteristics combination of communicative, arbitrary, structured, generative, and dynamic (Willingham, 2002). Communicative is that back and forth between people. To have a conversation with another person there needs to be ...

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