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panfilo

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What is the term for the ability to create new expressions by combining other expressions?
 
  A. displacement
  B. diglossia
  C. productivity
  D. morphemic utility
  E. phonemic utility

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A key feature of language that helps explain anthropologists' continued interest in studying it is that it
 
  A. enables us to compare human and nonhuman primate linguistic grammars.
  B. tells us a lot about the present, although nothing about the past.
  C. is always changing.
  D. helps them distinguish between the more and less evolved human races.
  E. rarely changes, so it provides a good window into linguistic uses of the past.



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lindahyatt42

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C




panfilo

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Reply 2 on: Aug 11, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


Joy Chen

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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