Cultural Anthro ch 4
Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as
A pidgin language
In the Melanesian conception of time, the future is specially located
Behind the body
In evolutionary terms humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because we
Can speak using a larynx
Words that originate from a common word in the same ancestral language are called
Cognate words
The human ability to speak about the past, about items not present and about imaginary worlds is called
Displacement
For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which of the following symbol?
Elaborating symbol
The study of how people classify things in the natural world is called
Ethnoscience
Which of the following is a feature of language?
It consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar
The US government's prohibition of Native American children speaking their indigenous languages in Indian schools has contributed most profoundly to
Language death
The study of how words fit together to make meaningful units is called
Morphology
Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except
Narrative symbols
Animal call systems
Only express responses to stimuli in their present environment
When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on
Parole
When language speakers use slang or metaphor, they are engaging in which concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure?
Parole
_________ refers to the study of speech sounds
Phonology
Animal call systems lack the ability (found in human languages) to produce an infinite number of word combinations. The ability in human language is called
Productivity
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay found that if language had only three color terms, they would always be black (dark), white (light), and
Red
