Cultural Anthro ch 4

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Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as

A pidgin language

In the Melanesian conception of time, the future is specially located

Behind the body

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

Can speak using a larynx

Words that originate from a common word in the same ancestral language are called

Cognate words

The human ability to speak about the past, about items not present and about imaginary worlds is called

Displacement

For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which of the following symbol?

Elaborating symbol

The study of how people classify things in the natural world is called

Ethnoscience

Which of the following is a feature of language?

It consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar

The US government's prohibition of Native American children speaking their indigenous languages in Indian schools has contributed most profoundly to

Language death

The study of how words fit together to make meaningful units is called

Morphology

Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except

Narrative symbols

Animal call systems

Only express responses to stimuli in their present environment

When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on

Parole

When language speakers use slang or metaphor, they are engaging in which concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure?

Parole

_________ refers to the study of speech sounds

Phonology

Animal call systems lack the ability (found in human languages) to produce an infinite number of word combinations. The ability in human language is called

Productivity

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay found that if language had only three color terms, they would always be black (dark), white (light), and

Red


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