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