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ลกั ษณะทว่ั ไปของภาษา 1-5

8. 1. Language makes use of an unlimited number of sounds.
2. The words we use are the same as the things they refer to.
3. The primary medium of language is sound.
4. The spoken language is based on the written language.
9. 1. Language changes all the time.
2. The language of one generation is the same as that of another.
3. A person cannot learn two or three languages at the same time.
4. The written language is older than the spoken language.
10. 1. People who are poor are not good at languages.
2. Primitive people do not have their own language.
3. Knowing a language means knowing how the words in that language are put

together.
4. Language plays an important role in the normal functioning of human society.

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approach impartial principles
facts important science
human observation scientific
opposed

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. A study is said to be
(1) when it is founded on the (2) of facts and refrains from
picking and choosing among the (3) in the light of certain aesthetic or
moral (4) . Thus “scientific” is (5) to “prescriptive.” In the
case of linguistics it is particularly (6) to insist on the scientific and non
prescriptive character of our (7) : the object of this (8)
being a form of (9) activity, there is a great temptation to forsake the
domain of (10) observation in order to recommend certain modes of
behavior or conduct.