On a planet where cows are called zoht!,the inhabitants use the name "zoht!" any time they refer to cows.A psycholinguist would argue on the basis of this fact that the aliens' language is
A)regularly structured.
B)arbitrarily symbolic.
C)dynamic.
D)static.

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The fact that the aliens use the arbitrary symbol "zoht!" to refer to cows suggests that their language is arbitrarily symbolic, meaning that there is no inherent connection between the symbol (word) and the thing it represents.

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