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Explain the term productivity as a unique property of human language.

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Language users manipulate their linguistic resources to produce new expressions and new sentences. This property of human language is known as productivity or creativity. It is an aspect of language which is linked to the fact that the potential number of utterances in any human language is infinite.
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