Why can humans create more sounds to make words than animals?
The human brain is smaller.
The position of the human skull is more forward.
The position of the human skull is more centred.
Animals' brains are bigger.
Which is NOT a reason why humans can produce language?
The human brain has two regions for producing language.
The top of the human mouth is wider and curved.
Humans have more important things to communicate.
The human skull is more centred on the spine.
Is human language learned or innate?
learned
Are most animals' forms of communication learned or innate?
innate
True or False: Deaf children cannot learn to communicate.
False
Name one method of NONVERBAL communication.
sign language, gestures, paralanguage, kinesics / body language, proxemics / social distance
Use nonverbal communication to say NO.
(student should gesture or use paralanguage)
Use nonverbal communication to show SURPRISE.
(student should gesture or use paralanguage)
Use nonverbal communication to say I DON'T KNOW.
(student should gesture or use paralanguage)
Use nonverbal language to say "I don't like this."
(student should gesture or use paralanguage)
What does the Critical Age Range hypothesis say?
Apes can learn some words but not an entire language.
Birds are born knowing how to make sounds.
Children learn language from the people around them.
A child can't learn a new language easily after puberty.
Animals have a closed communication system, which means...
they cannot make sounds, only gestures.
they cannot communicate with each other.
they can create new language.
they cannot create new meanings or messages.
Humans have an open communication system, which means...
we can use our phones anywhere in the world.
we can create an infinite number of messages.
we cannot create new ideas or meanings.
we only use verbal words to communicate.
Provide one reason why animals communicate with one another.
(survival, food, danger, mating, etc.)
The 4 features that human languages have are:
morphology, semantics, grammar, productivity
discreteness, grammar, productivity, displacement
discreteness, semantics, grammar, displacement
culture, grammar, productivity, displacement
What is a phoneme?
The earliest form of writing.
The smallest unit of writing.
The smallest unit of sound, with meaning.
The smallest unit of sound, without meaning.
