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TVarnum

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Recent research comparing the number of words used by male and female speakers:
 
  a) reveals that males use over three times as many words in their speech as females.
   b) reveals that females use over three times as many words in their speech as males.
   c) reveals little difference in the number of words used by males and females.
   d) The number of words in natural conversation has never been measured.

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Gricean maxims in language indicate that our conversational partners should conform to all of the following EXCEPT:
 
  a) avoidance of ambiguity.
   b) relevance.
   c) grammatical correctness.
   d) truthfulness.


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parker125

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

Answer: c

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c


TVarnum

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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