Anthropology Test Questions Chapter 5

a creole

A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called

a sign

A stoplight is a visual example of which of the following?

key scenarios summarizing symbols elaborating symbols

Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols:

philology

The approach that compares ancient texts and documents to analyze long -term linguistic change is called ____________

morphology

The study of grammatical categories, such as tense and word order, is called

ethnoscience

The study of how people classify things in the world is called:

cognate words phonology

Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called;

symbols

_______ are words or objects that stand for something else.

sociolinguistics

________ is the study of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society

phonology

_____________ refers to the structure of speech sounds

false

Languages change very slowly, taking generations or even centuries.

false

Most mammals use some form of call system to communicate with others of their species. Dogs and chimpanzees share an additional linguistic characteristic because they can communicate simple combinations of ideas about things they are not currently seeing.

call system

The set of sounds and movements that animals make to communicate is called a ________

language

When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on

minimal

Words that differ by only one single sound contrast, like in the case of "ban," "man," and "pan," are called _______ pairs.

a summarizing symbol

According to anthropologist Sherry Ortner's analysis, the American flag is an example of

true

America's pattern of gender inequality is built into our linguistic practices

Animals can't talk but they communicate. They have a limited range of "calls" and so a limited range of topics to communicate about.

Animal call systems are

red

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay found that if a language had only three color terms, they would always be black (dark), white (light), and ______

morphology

How words fit together to make meaningful units is called

american sign language

Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned:

true

Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking it makes a mistake.