All human languages are organized on two levels: the sound level—meaningless, the grammatical level—meaningful.This means language has the design feature of（）.
All human languages are organized on two levels: the sound level—meaningless, the grammatical level—meaningful.This means language has the design feature of（）.
A.creative
B.changeable
C.arbitrary
D.duality
正确答案：D
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