While playing one afternoon, a group of children decided to develop a special language only they would know. They decided that they would use the word "yof" to mean adults. Whenever a child used the word "yof" the others knew that the child was referring to an adult. This represents which property of language?

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The use of "yof" to represent "adults" demonstrates the symbolic property of language, where words are used as symbols to represent objects or concepts.

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