Question 1

In their natural habitat chimpanzees communicate using

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A)   open systems that include displacement.
B)   displacement within a closed system of calls.
C)   symbolic communication including American Sign Language (ASL) .
D)   closed call systems.

Question 2

Explain and evaluate the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

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Question 3

What is a labiodental fricative?

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A labiodental fricative is a type of con...

Question 4

Explain what syntax is.

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Syntax refers to the set of rules and pr...

Question 5

According to Edward T.Hall, the use of space in middle-class American culture is broken into which main distances in social relations and business?

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A)   private, personal, and public space
B)   intimate, personal, social, and public
C)   private, social, business, and personal
D)   personal and business

Question 6

The work of the Pirahã language by Daniel Everett supports the hypothesis that

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A)   culture shapes language.
B)   culture shapes reality.
C)   biology (genetics)  prepares humans for language.
D)   biology and experiential learning shape culture.

Question 7

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that

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A)   vocabulary structures one's reality.
B)   environment structures one's reality.
C)   experience structures one's reality.
D)   culture structures one's reality.

Question 8

Shona speakers have only three names for the colors of the rainbow.This means that

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A)   they visually perceive only three colors.
B)   their language groups several colors into one term.
C)   they have a genetic defect for color vision.
D)   they only describe colors as warm, cool, and neutral.

Question 9

Explain how displacement is a part of human symbolic communication.

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Displacement is a crucial aspect of huma...

Question 10

Silent language, as part of a symbolic communication system, includes all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   gestures.
B)   use of space.
C)   artifacts such as clothing.
D)   written words.

Question 11

According to Daniel Everett, the Pirahã of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, do NOT have this key feature of language:

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A)   morphemes.
B)   verb tenses.
C)   recursive phrases.
D)   syntax.

Question 12

Contrast a phoneme and a morpheme.

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound ...

Question 13

Silent language can be one of the most difficult aspects of another culture to learn because it

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A)   is not shared by everyone in the community.
B)   is not formally taught.
C)   does not convey the same meaning as verbal communication.
D)   causes ethnocentrism.

Question 14

Describe one of the following aspects of descriptive linguistics: phonology, morphology.

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Phonology is the aspect of descriptive l...

Question 15

Contrast kinesics and proxemics.

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Kinesics and proxemics are two key conce...

Question 16

Which of the following languages is more complex?

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A)   Chinese
B)   English
C)   German
D)   None is more complex than another.

Question 17

Discuss with specific examples how linguistic anthropologists describe a human language.

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Linguistic anthropologists describe huma...

Question 18

An American tourist put his arm around a Javanese child while speaking to him.This is an example of

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A)   kinesics.
B)   proxemics.
C)   syntax.
D)   morphology.

Question 19

An American business executive visiting Saudi Arabia calls a businessman to set up an appointment for 9:00 a.m.The Saudi would NOT consider himself late if he arrived around

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A)   9:10
B)   9:15
C)   9:30
D)   9:45

Question 20

Chimpanzees are not considered to have language because their communication system is

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A)   open but lacks creative change.
B)   open but lacks syntax.
C)   closed and lacks recursion.
D)   closed and lacks calls.

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