Anthropology Quiz 7

Apes do not use language as humans do because a. they have never been taught language; otherwise, they could speak it. b. they have chosen not to, in order to maintain certain other evolutionary advantages. c. their brains, mouth, and throats differ slightly. d. they are incapable of any high-level, complex communication.

c

Among our linguistic design features, the creative, linguistic capacity to combine existing sounds into new meanings and to combine existing words into new utterances is called a. phonology b. displacement c. arbitrariness d. openness/productivity

d

Which of the following choices is a phoneme? a. kang b. k c. kangaroo d. kangaroos

b

What is suggested by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? a. A certain set of morphemes and phonemes is shared among all human languages. b. The structure of the human brain causes all humans to have a universal grammar c. All human languages require phonemes and rules for combining them into words. d. Languages have different grammars, which create different ways of thinking

d

Which of the following is NOT an example of folk taxonomy? a. the classification of different types of bird species expressed in a tribal community dance b. the understanding mothers ascribe to the nonverbal communication of their infants c. Indigenous names for different species of plants used in healing rituals d. the system of binomial nomenclature utilized by Western universities

d

Which of these is NOT an accurate description of a linguistic anthropologist? a. explores language as an expression of cultural worldviews b. focuses on the development of language in nonhuman primate c. explores both formal and informal patterns of speech in a culture d. examines the role of language in sociocultural life with a focus on larger cultural processes

b

From our film Language Matters, as a language dies out...nears extinction... in what form does language most often remain among the few who might still know at least parts of the language at the end of its existence? a. in the form of bible verses b. in the form of dictionaries c. in the form of song d. in the form of painted artwork

c

In the film Language Matters, dominant languages are noted as quickly "gobbling up" smaller languages....what is significant of the current loss of language in the world today as compared to language loss in the human past. a. increased culture contact has helped dying languages spread quicker. b. languages of the past couldn't be preserved because many didn't have writing. c. it is slowing down thanks to the internet d. it is speeding up dramatically

d

Nonhuman primates cannot communicate vocally about absent or nonexistent objects or past or future events. Thus, their call systems lack the linguistic design feature referred to as a. prevarication b. duality of patterning c. openness/productivity d. displacement

d

Which of the following is most important to anthropologists who are interested in how language varies across cultures and environments? a. an increase in meat eating b. larger brain size and social groups c. the FOXP2 gene d. the ability to imitate

d

Based on our readings from the text, which statement is NOT true regarding communication? a. It is synonymous with the term language. b. It can be voluntary or involuntary, simple or complex. c. It involves the transfer of information from a sender to a receiver. d. It is practiced by animals as well as humans.

a

Researchers Brent Berlin and Paul Kay determined what regarding perceptions of color in 98 different languages. a.The most important colors were found to be black and red. b.Black and white are the most important distinctions. c.Four colors were found to be the most important: red, blue, green, and yellow. d.Pink was a prominent color found in all cultures

b

Which of the following is most important to anthropologists who are interested in how language varies across cultures and environments? a. adaptive mimicry b. linguistic relativity c. displacement d. folk taxonomies

b

Finish this sentence: In the film Language Matters, a technique to get young Welsh speaking children to stop speaking their native language in school was to ....

punish them for speaking Welsh, such as being beaten, forced to stand in the corner, or having their mouths washed out with soap.