Exam 4: Communication

Technology plays an increasingly vital role today in our forms of communication.Choose three forms of technology that are used frequently today for communication and describe how these have changed the ways that people communicated.

What success did Dr.Sue Savage-Rumbaugh have in teaching sign language to the bonobo chimpanzee Kanzi?

A fundamental principle of language is that:

Your investigation of two different languages reveals that their basic vocabularies differ by 28 percent.Using Glottochronology,you determine that some historical event caused the groups speaking these languages to separate:

Which of the following is the most noticeable object of linguistic change?

Even though biologically capable of capable of making the sounds of human language,no chimp has ever produced voluntary speech-like verbalization.

The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space is called _________.

How does Ferdinand de Saussure distinguish between language and speech,and why is this important for anthropologists?

When a language is lost,so also are many important cultural elements.

The English word "cats" has how many morphemes?

All the sounds used in the different languages of the world can be represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Why is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis significant to linguistic studies?

Which of the following is an example of code-switching?

Some languages do not have syntactic structure.

A dialect is:

Each language has its own set of phonemes.

Which of the following best characterizes the cross-cultural meaning of smiling?

One aspect of language that appears to contradict the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is that human languages are similar in that:

An important method comparative linguists use to draw conclusions about the relationship between two languages is:

Sociolinguistics is helpful to anthropologists in understanding culture because: