Why can humans create more sounds to make words than animals?
The position of the human skull is more forward.
Animals' brains are bigger.
The human brain is smaller.
The position of the human skull is more centred.
Which is NOT a reason why humans can produce language?
Humans have more important things to communicate.
The top of the human mouth is wider and curved.
The human skull is more centred on the spine.
The human brain has two regions for producing language.
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?
Children learn language from the people around them.
A child can't learn a new language easily after puberty.
Apes can learn some words but not an entire language.
Birds are born knowing how to make sounds.
Animals have a closed communication system, which means...
they can create new language.
they cannot make sounds, only gestures.
they cannot create new meanings or messages.
they cannot communicate with each other.
Humans have an open communication system, which means...
we can create an infinite number of messages.
we only use verbal words to communicate.
we cannot create new ideas or meanings.
we can use our phones anywhere in the world.
Provide one reason why animals communicate with one another.
(survival, food, danger, mating, etc.)
The 4 features that human languages have are:
discreteness, grammar, productivity, displacement
culture, grammar, productivity, displacement
morphology, semantics, grammar, productivity
discreteness, semantics, grammar, displacement
What is a phoneme?
The earliest form of writing.
The smallest unit of sound, with meaning.
The smallest unit of writing.
The smallest unit of sound, without meaning.
