Exam 5: Language-And-Communication

The entire formal structure of a language consisting of all observations about its meaningful units of sounds and the rules or principles of making phrases and sentences is called its:

A language family is a group of languages that:

In the 1930s and '40s,Edward Sapir and investigated the idea that language,by providing habitual grooves of expression,predisposes people to see the world in a certain way.

Arapaho is a Native American indigenous language.

Lakota is a language that uses gendered speech.

Which of the following statements is not an example of linguistic nationalism?

Chantek was able to do all of the following except:

Anthropologists predict that by the year 2100,there will only be about 100 languages in the world.

Which of the following would be an acceptable research topic in the field of historical linguistics?

Edward Sapir is the first anthropologist to do research in proxemics.

The central and most highly developed human system of communication is:

Phonology is the:

The influence of a person's class status on what pronunciation he/she uses,a speaker's choice of more complicated vocabulary and grammar when he/she is speaking to a professional audience,and the influence of language on culture are all concerns of:

When countries react to a real or perceived threat of foreign cultural dominance by purging foreign words from the language,it is an example of:

Although language may be studied as an independent system,it is also important to look at in terms of what it tells us about society and culture.Whatever its phonemes,syntax,and history,language is a dynamic,adaptive system that facilitates the speaker's survival and gives clues about what is significant in his/her life.When we focus on the relationship between language and culture of those who speak it and how they inform each other,we are doing:

Which of the following are of greatest importance in human speech?

Which of the following statements about the English language is incorrect?

Most of the alphabets in use today descended from the:

Chantek was a gorilla who learned American Sign Language.

The study of language sounds is grammar.