Emily Created a New Sentence That Neither She nor Any

question 68

Multiple Choice

Emily created a new sentence that neither she nor any bodyelse had ever heard before: "The chinless human-factors-interface-technician roamed the halls of academia looking for a lobotomized bureaucrat to interface with." This example most clearly illustrates the _____.

• A)generative property of language
• B)symbolic nature of language
• C)syntactical properties of language
• D)displacement aspects of language

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Definitions:

Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs.

Drive Theories

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Skeptical

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Need to Belong

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