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Anthropology: Linguistics

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