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LCritchfi

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on: Jul 10, 2018
The design feature of language that allows you to produce and comprehend entirely new utterances that you've never spoken or hear before is which of the following?
 
  a. discreteness
  b. displacement
  c. productivity
  d. duality of patterning

Question 2

The design feature of language that refers to the fact that you can talk about things that are not present is which of the following?
 
  a. discreteness
  b. displacement
  c. productivity
  d. duality of patterning


mfedorka

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

b


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