The chimpanzees' use of ASL includes the language feature(s):
A)openness
B)displacement
C)arbitrariness
D)all of the above

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The chimpanzees' use of ASL exhibits all three language features: openness, displacement, and arbitrariness. Openness refers to the ability of a language to create new words and phrases. The chimpanzees often created new signs to communicate about new objects or ideas that they were encountering. Displacement refers to the ability of a language to talk about things that are not present in the immediate environment. The chimpanzees were able to use ASL to talk about events that had happened in the past, or that were going to happen in the future. Arbitrariness refers to the fact that the meaning of a word or sign is not directly related to the thing it represents. The signs the chimpanzees used had no inherent connection to the objects or concepts they represented, they were arbitrary.

The Chimpanzees' Use of ASL Includes the Language Feature(s)