ANTH 1003: Quiz Week 9

"Why Isn't the Sky Blue": Which society was the earliest to have a term for the color blue in the written literature?

Egyptians

Languages always change very slowly, taking generations or even centuries.

False

Anthropologists think that the first hominin capable of speaking in sounds, not signals, was:

Homo erectus

This assumes a close relationship between language and culture and claims that language defines people's experiences

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking it makes a mistake.

True

In "Radio Lab: Why Isn't the Sky Blue", how did Guy Deutsher's daughter Alma initially describe the sky?

White

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

a pidgin language

Which of the following is a feature of language?

all of the above

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

ethnoscience

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