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laurencescou

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On a planet where cows are called zoht, the inhabitants use the name zoht any time they refer to cows. A psycholinguist would argue on the basis of this fact that the aliens' language is ____.
 
  a. regularly structured
  b. arbitrarily symbolic
  c. dynamic
 d. static

Question 2

Which property of language conveys the notion that we are able to exchange thoughts and feelings with others?
 
  a. arbitrarily symbolic
 b. structured at multiple levels
  c. generative
 d. communicative


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duy1981999

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d


laurencescou

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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