The ability of a speaker to communicate about things at times other than the present and about things not directly in front of the speaker is termed:
A. displacement
B. duality of patterning
C. arbitrariness
D. discreteness
A. displacement
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a. Develop educational facilities to improve lives of natives. b. Establish permanent settlements for colonizers. c. Develop commercial establishments in colonies to use inexpensive native labor. d. Gain maritime control in order to control trade. e. Acquire colonies to exploit raw materials.
One problem with ecological intelligence models is __________
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