When We Say That Human Language Is "Conventional," We Mean

question 32

Multiple Choice

When we say that human language is "conventional," we mean that:

• A)Humans are very conservative and rarely change their way of speaking.
• B)The words in human languages have no inherent relationship to the things they stand for.
• C)All languages follow the same grammatical rules or conventions.
• D)Human language was invented at a convention.
• E)All human languages have basically the same structure and differences among them are only superficial.

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