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ลกั ษณะท่ัวไปของภาษา 1-9

ให้นักศกึ ษาเขียน T หนา้ ขอ้ ทีถ่ กู และ F หน้าขอ้ ทผี่ ดิ
1. Learning to talk is the same as learning to walk.
2. The language that a child speaks is determined by the society in which he is

raised.
3. Everyone is biologically equipped to walk.
4. Everyone is not biologically equipped to talk.
5. An American child whose parents left him in a foreign country will not be

able to speak the language of his parents.
6. Each society has its own language.
7. Only children of a highly developed country can learn to talk.
8. The language of one social group is the same as that of another.
9. The language of one group reflects the history of that group.
10. The values, attitudes and customs of the society in which a person is raised

is not important in the process of acquiring speech.

Passage 2 1. ศตั รู

Whatever else people may do when they come together 2. คณุ สมบตั ิ
whether they play, fight, make love, or make automobiles they talk. 3. ตำ� นาน
We live in a world of words. We talk to our friends, our associates, our
wives and husbands, our mothers and mothers-in-law; we talk to total
strangers and to our adversaries1. We talk face to face and over the
telephone. And everyone responds to us with more talk. Television and
radio further swell this torrent of words. As a result, hardly a moment
of our waking lives is free from words. We talk even when there is no
one to answer. We talk to our pets. We sometimes talk to ourselves.
And we are the only animals that talk.

The possession of language, more than any other attribute,2
distinguishes humans from other animals. To understand our humanity
one must understand the language that makes us human. According to
the philosophy expressed in the myths3 and religions of many peoples,