Let's say that I ask you to tell me what you did last summer. You say that you took a trip to Europe. What property of language does your description of your trip illustrate?
A)Generativity
B)Segmentation
C)Displacement
D)Top-down processing
E)Bottom-up processing

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Displacement allows language to refer to things that are not currently present or events that have happened in the past or will happen in the future, such as describing a trip to Europe last summer.

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