Author Question: Humans have the ability to talk about things, times, and places that are not within their immediate ... (Read 95 times)

charchew · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Humans have the ability to talk about things, times, and places that are not within their immediate experience. The term for this is

a. arbitrariness.
b. displacement.
c. grammar.
d. discrete and recombinable elements.

Question 2

Every language has a limited number of sounds and rules for combining them to create units of meaning. This characteristic of language is called

a. productivity.
b. arbitrariness.
c. discreteness.
d. displacement.