Linguistics is the __________ study of language. 2. Language, broadly speaking, is a means of __________ communication. 3. Theory that primitive man made involuntary vocal noises while performing heavy work has been called the __________ theory. 4. Arbitrariness of language makes it potentially creative, and _________ of language makes learning a language laborious. For learners of a foreign language, it is this feature of language that is more worth noticing than arbitrariness. 5. In Saussure’s view, the relationship between signifier (sound image) and signified (concept) is _______. 6. Human language is arbitrary. This refers to the fact that there is no logical or intrinsic connection between a particular sound and the _________ it is associated with. 7. The features that define our human languages can be called __________features.