The process whereby a language is passed on from one generation to the next is?
a) Cultural transmission
Humans are continually creating new expressions and utterances by manipulating their linguistic resources to describe new objects. This property is described as:
c) Productivity
Human language is organized at two levels or simultaneously. This property is called?
a) Duality
Humans can refer to past and future time. This is a characteristic of the property named…
c) Displacement
The informative signals are those which…
b) Are unintentional
It is generally the case that there is no “natural” connection between a linguistic form and its meaning. The characteristic mentioned before refers to…
a) Arbitrariness
The communicative signals are those which...
b) Are intentional
Which were the names of the scientists that used the American Sign Language method?
c) Beatrix and Allen Gardner
Which was the name of the chimpanzee that was able to understand a hundred words?
a) Gua
Which was the name of the chimpanzee that understands complex structures?
b) Sarah
With whom does Herbert Terrace have a controversy?
a) The Gardners
To refer to things such as bananas, grapes and juice Kanzi used?
b) Gentle noises
