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:

Proposition

An expression or proclamation that signifies a belief or conclusion, which may be valid or not.

Obverse

The statement formed by negating both the subject and predicate of a given categorical proposition and changing the quality from affirmative to negative, or vice versa.

Proposition

In philosophy, a content of thought expressed in language or symbols that can be analyzed as either true or false.

Converse

In logic, a statement formed by reversing the antecedent and consequent in a conditional statement; if the original statement is "If P, then Q," the converse is "If Q, then P."