Question

Which of the following is not a common characteristic of all languages? A. word order B. sentence and phrase meaning C. word meaning D. unique sound system of phonetics

Answer 1

All languages share characteristics among them, as proposed by Noah Chomsky, all languages share a Universal Grammar, that is, all the languages have linguistics traits in common.

For instance, they all have in common “sentence and phrase meaning”, “word meaning”,  “unique sound system of phonetics” and some other linguistics features.

But what they do not share in common is:

A. word order

Different languages have different syntax, that is, they have different word order.

Answer 2

D. unique sound system of phonetics