Multiple Choice
Research on the communication skills of nonhuman primates reveals their inability to refer to objects that are not immediately present in their environment,such as food and danger.The ability to describe things and events that are not present is called
A) cultural transmission.
B) displacement.
C) linguistic imagination.
D) phonology.
E) productivity.
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