ANTH quiz questions

Question 1

a contact language with a simplified grammatical structure is called a

Answer 1

pidgin

Question 2

the development of a pidgin into a creole by children learning it as a native language is evidence supporting

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that language is instinctual

Question 3

creolization is evidence that

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children have the instinct to develop a simplified language into a fully grammatical one

Question 4

for creolization to happen you need to have

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native speakers

Question 5

Hawaiian language and Hawaiian “pidgin” are diff languages

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true

Question 6

“English is the language of freedom; others are languages of oppression and un-Americanness” This statement best exemplifies:

Answer 6

• linguistic determinism

Question 7

in what year did the US gov pass the Native American languages act to protect and promote Native American language

Answer 7

1990

Question 8

how many republics were there in the USSR

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15

Question 9

what does lexical mean

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relating to words or vocabulary

Question 10

surzhyk is

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a language that mixes elements of Ukrainian and russian

Question 11

which of these is one of traditional 4 main subfields of American anthropology: archaeology, sociology, paleontology, semiotics

Answer 11

archaeology

Question 12

the 1st professor of anthropology in the US was

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• franz boas

Question 13

which of the following words is least arbitrary (most connected/motivated) in relation to what it means: red, fresh, roar, roast, fear

Answer 13

roar

Question 14

which of the following words seems the most arbitrary in relation to what it means: whisper, swear, twitter, howl, bark

Answer 14

swear

Question 15

the idea that language determines how we think is most accurately labeled as

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the strong whorf hypothesis

Question 16

the comoro islands where ottenheimer did her research are closest to which continent

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africa

Question 17

vervet monkey communication

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has the feature of discreteness

Question 18

which design feature is truly unique to humans

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reflexiveness

Question 19

the vocal tract of human infants

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• is similar to that of adult neanderthals

Question 20

the technical term for a language disorder is

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aphasia

Question 21

the critical period for learning a first language is

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by age 6

Question 22

the number of neurons and synapses in our brain continues to increase throughout our lifetime

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• false

Question 23

a child saying “I runned’ is an example of

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overgeneralization

Question 24

the ability to understand pointing best shows understanding of

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indexical signs

Question 25

mad in IPA

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m ae d

Question 26

boot in IPA

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b u t

Question 27

which of these has highest front vowel: arm, route, eat, at, it

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eat

Question 28

which of these is a minimal pair in English: 1. tea, tee 2. bare, bear 3. care, car 4. deer, dear

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care, car

Question 29

serial killer and cereal killer

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homophone

Question 30

which of these is not a distinctive feature of sign language: hand shape, hand size, hand orientation, hand movement, hand placement relative to body

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hand size

Question 31

most sign languages are mutually intelligible

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false

Question 32

which one of these is a suprasegmental feature (not a distinctive phonological feature) in English: voicedness, place of articulation, loudness, roundedness

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loudness

Question 33

which of these is rarest in English affix, prefix, infix, suffix

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infix

Question 34

which of these is accomplished primarily in the act of speaking helping, hating, promising, impressing

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promising

Question 35

who tends to use more backchannel cues

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women

Question 36

who tends to use more hedges

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women

Question 37

nodding your head and saying "mhmm" are called

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backchannel cues

Question 38

what can you use to make outrageous behavior normal

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framing

Question 39

the goal of pragmatics is to analyze

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speech acts

Question 40

how old is the political division of the world into "nations" approx

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300 years

Question 41

a dialect continuum means that

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language varies gradually across space, with greater differences at greater distances

Question 42

what is imagined community

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feeling of solidarity with people you may never actually meet