Anthropology Chapter 4: Linguistics
Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except...
A: Narrative symbols
Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as...
A: Pidgin language
Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned...
B: American Sign Language
In the Melanesian conception of time, the future is spatially located...
B: Behind the body
The human ability to speak about the past, about items not present and about imaginary worlds is called...
B: Displacement
Because of the widespread use of mass media today, sociolinguistics have found increasing homogeneity in the use of language in the United States.
B: False
When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on...
B: Langue
The study of meaningful units formed by a combination of phonemes is called...
B: Morphology
Animal call systems lack the ability (found in human languages) to produce an infinite number of word combinations. This ability in human language is called...
B: Productivity
In biological terms, humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because they...
C: Can speak using larynx
Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called...
C: Cognitive words
The study of how people classify things in the world is called...
C: Ethnoscience
The US government's prohibition of Native American children speaking their indigenous languages in Indian schools has contributed most profoundly to...
C: Language death
____ refers to an individual bit of sound that changes meaning.
C: Phoneme
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay found that if a language had only three color terms, they would always be black (dark), white (light) and...
C: Red
According to anthropologist Sherry Ortner's analysis, the American flag is an example of...
D: A summarizing symbol
When language speakers use slang or metaphor, they are engaging in which concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure?
D: Phonology
