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can be addressed by explaining the meaning or the use of the normative words that are used in law ('obligation', 'right',…).
Of course the crucial issues are normative not what word we use.
Since names are only conventionally significant, which concept is associated with a given name depends in part on the psychological conditioning of language-users, in virtue of which Abelard can treat signification as both a causal and a normative notion: the word 'rabbit' ought to cause native speakers of English to have the concept of a rabbit upon hearing it.
Normative is a word of negation and resistance.
Unless the authors can clarify how these two different scenarios can be distinguished, how the word "normative" is used in this manuscript might need to be improved.
Minor Comments: The authors use the word normative in an odd way and this leads them, occasionally, to say things that seem false.
As the level of childbearing within cohabitation increases, cohabitors could be more likely to adopt the fertility levels and patterns of those who practice normative behavior in other words, married people.
There is a risk here of confusing the biological sense of "human" as an taxonomic term (like "canine" or "simian") and the word's normative use, as in "human rights".
46.7%, 82.2%, 84.4%, and 57.8% of the subjects fell within the range of 1 SD from the normative mean of "Total N Words," "Words per Sentence," "Morphosyntax," and "Semantics," respectively– 1(d)).
But the normative element expressed by such words as ought, should, right, and their negations (as in "Thou shalt not….")—is by itself not cognitively meaningful but has primarily emotional and motivative significance.
In other words, the normative model accounts for evidence strength in a way that depends on hazard rate.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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