Which type of grammar of a language represents the unconscious linguistic knowledge or capacity of its speakers
descriptive grammar
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Which language does not have a plural and singular form?
Zulu
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What are two fundamental properties that distinguish human language from the communication systems of birds and other animals
Displacement and discreteness
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Who suggested that parroting professional language may also disguise oneโs lack of knowledge or function as a mechanism to purposely mislead an audience?
Hirst, 2003; Robins & Crystal, 2019
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How can we compare the work of linguists to CSI criminologists?
use a variety of methods of analyzing language in order to illuminate many different aspects of language
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According to which hypothesis the particular language we speak determines or influences our thoughts and perceptions of the world?
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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What was Kerr (2005)'s opinion about the use of jargon?
It is unlikely to change given the professionโs fondness for novelty and a societal value that prioritizes codified prp.nal knwl.ge over uncodified prc. knowhow
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Which languages and dialects are fully expressive, complete, and logical,?
All
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What Bader (1989) aptly noted about neologisms?
โgetting other people to use your terms is an indication of powerโ (p. 629).
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What is linguistic relativism?
different languages encode different categories and that speakers of different languages therefore think about the world
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When we study human language, we are approaching what some might call the โhuman essence,โ the distinctive qualities of mind that are, so far as we know, unique to man. Whose idea is this?
Noam Chomsky
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What is the creative aspect of language?
Knowing a language means being able to produce and understand new sentences never spoken before.