ANTH Quiz 3.1

How words fit together to make meaningful units is called

morphology.

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

morphology.

de Saussure's concept of parole is the

way people actually speak a language.

Today most anthropologists accept a ________ version of the linguistic relativity argument: the language habits of a community create tendencies to think about the world in certain ways and not others.

weak (nondeterministic)

Koko and Washoe were two primates who had learned

American Sign Language.

Languages change very slowly, taking generations or even centuries.

False

If Jakob Grimm, who developed what has come to be known as Grimm's law, were analyzing the historical relationships among the so-called dialects of Chinese (such as Cantonese and Mandarin), what data would he be looking for in his linguistic fieldwork?

How the speakers of each dialect pronounce different words with similar meanings in the several dialects

Like cultural anthropologists, linguistic anthropologists work with informants or research subjects through fieldwork.

True

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

True

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

cognate words.