Discussion
One of the distinctive features of human language is .............. .
Answer: A
One distinctive feature is Cultural transmission.
Human language is acquired by learning it from the community one grows up in, not inherited genetically. A child of any parentage learns whichever language surrounds it. Cultural transmission is one of Hockett's design features of language.
Genetic transmission is the opposite: the capacity for language is innate, but no particular language is passed on genetically, whereas many animal calls are largely instinctive. 'Effective' and 'non-effective' transmission are not recognised features of language.
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