ANTH 1003: Quiz Week 9
"Why Isn't the Sky Blue": Which society was the earliest to have a term for the color blue in the written literature?
Egyptians
Languages always change very slowly, taking generations or even centuries.
False
Anthropologists think that the first hominin capable of speaking in sounds, not signals, was:
Homo erectus
This assumes a close relationship between language and culture and claims that language defines people's experiences
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking it makes a mistake.
True
In "Radio Lab: Why Isn't the Sky Blue", how did Guy Deutsher's daughter Alma initially describe the sky?
White
Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as
a pidgin language
Which of the following is a feature of language?
all of the above
The study of how people classify things in the world is called
ethnoscience
If you studied speech patterns such as those analyzed in Robin Lakoff's study of gendered speech, you might find that "talking like a lady"
marginalizes women's voices in work contexts