Olivia Is Writing an Email to Her Professor

question 478

Multiple Choice

Olivia is writing an email to her professor. She writes it the same way she'd write an email to her friend. Her first line reads, "Hey, how u doing? Yr office hours aren't good for me. Can I pop over now?" What language rule has Olivia violated?

• A)minimum lexical access
• B)pragmatics
• C)speech segmentation
• D)morphophonemics
• E)generativity

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Definitions:

Pattern of Values

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