Cultural emphasis refers to ________

a. the major nonverbal forms of communication in a society
b. the favorite forms of argument in a society
c. the one language most members of society learn better than any other.
d. the group of words in a language that are considered more adaptively important in that culture
e. certain types of words that are found repeatedly in different languages, such as “mama”


ANSWER:
d

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