Emily created a new sentence that neither she nor anybody else had ever heard before: "The chinless human-factors-interface-technician roamed the halls of academia looking for a lobotomized bureaucrat with whom to interface." This example most clearly illustrates the _____.
A) generative property of language
B) symbolic nature of language
C) syntactical properties of language
D) displacement aspects of language

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The example sentence demonstrates the generative property of language, which refers to the ability of speakers to create and understand novel sentences that have never been heard before.

Emily Created a New Sentence That Neither She nor Anybody