A person's name generally has no logical connection with the actual person, just as the word "cow" does not look like a cow or sound like a cow. According to American linguist Charles Hockett, these examples illustrate how the connection between a word and what it represents is __________.

A. context bound
B. concrete
C. arbitrary
D. denotative


Answer: C

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