ANTH 1003 Week 9 *Quiz Questions* (Auburn University)

Which of the following is a contributing factor to the development of creoles, pidgins, and other hybrid forms of language?

ALL OF THE ABOVE -colonialism -globalization -commerce -migration

Which of the following is a feature of language?

ALL OF THE ABOVE -it is used to communicate -it is symbolic -it consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar

Who taught Washoe (an ape) American Sign Language?

Allen and Beatrix Gardener

Anthropologists think that the first hominin capable of speaking in sounds, not signals, was:

Homo erectus

Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking it makes a mistake T or F

True

In "Radio Lab: Why Isn't the Sky Blue", how did Guy Deutsher's daughter Alma initially describe the sky?

White

"Why Isn't the Sky Blue": What is the name of the British Prime Minister who was fascinated with the stories of Homer?

William Gladstone

The communication systems of nonhuman species consist of a finite (limited) number of signals for finite specific meanings. Such systems are said to be:

closed

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

cognate words

Being able to communicate about things not currently present in space and time is known as:

displacement

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

ethnoscience

The U.S. government's prohibition of Native American children speaking their indigenous languages in Indian schools has contributed most profoundly to

language death

The use of mock Spanish reinforces a common impression that Hispanic people are socially inferior. This is an example of the power of which of the following?

language ideology

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

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

parole

"Why Isn't the Sky Blue": What conclusion did Prime Minister William Gladstone make about how the Greeks saw color?

they were colorblind

In evolutionary terms humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because

we can speak using a larynx