Anthropology Chapter 5 Quiz Questions

- the "real world" is to large extent unconsciously built from the language habits of a particular social group - language is a guide to "social reality" - we understand the material world through the language we speak (All of the above)

Edward Sapir, who had been a student of Franz Boas's, saw himself as both a cultural anthropologist and a professionally trained linguist. He urged cultural anthropologists to pay close attention to language during field research because

morphology

How words fit together to make meaningful units is called

record how younger people, middle-aged people, and senior citizens pronounce ordinary American words

If you were a linguistic anthropologist interested in language change in smaller American cities, building on William Labov's studies from the 1980s, what method would you use?

we can speak using a larynx

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

American Sign Language

Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned

True

T/F Although language is one of the most rule-bound aspects of human culture, it is also one of the least conscious.

False

T/F Because of the widespread use of mass media today, sociolinguists have found increasing homogeneity in the use of language in the United States.

True

T/F Elaborating symbols and summarizing symbols work in opposite ways.

morphology

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

cognate words

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