The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segment are called 1 features. They include stress, tone, and intonation. The defining properties of human language are 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 6 . In the light of the 7 principle, four maxims are specified. They are the maxim of quantity, maxim of 8 , maxim of 9 and the maxim of 10