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... called " orange . " But when a community accepts a name for an object , it ceases to be arbitrary . The object can no longer be called just anything ; its meaning has become conven- tionalized . If objects , events , and processes ...
... called " orange . " But when a community accepts a name for an object , it ceases to be arbitrary . The object can no longer be called just anything ; its meaning has become conven- tionalized . If objects , events , and processes ...
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... called a transformation rule because it tells us " how to derive some- thing from something else by switching things about , putting things in or leaving them out , and so on . " 47 Although we can derive sen- tences through ...
... called a transformation rule because it tells us " how to derive some- thing from something else by switching things about , putting things in or leaving them out , and so on . " 47 Although we can derive sen- tences through ...
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... called Mussolini a " jackal " and Hitler a " blood- thirsty guttersnipe " he chose ugly sounding words . Certain elementary facts about speech sounds are directly help- ful to a speaker . Consider the vowels as they progress along a con ...
... called Mussolini a " jackal " and Hitler a " blood- thirsty guttersnipe " he chose ugly sounding words . Certain elementary facts about speech sounds are directly help- ful to a speaker . Consider the vowels as they progress along a con ...
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