Multiple Choice
According to the text, studying the patterns and importance of sounds as spoken by a group of people helps linguistic anthropologists:
A) establish local kinship patterns.
B) identify how emotions are conveyed through nonverbal communication.
C) locate the eldest members of a community.
D) understand the elements and rules of a particular language.
E) determine how long a specific language has existed.
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