1. The smallest part of a sentence that can be said alone and still retain its meaning is known as_____
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Word
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2. Universal Grammar is the basic set of _____ that underlie all languages.
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All of these
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3. Syntax is the part of _____ that has to do with the arrangement of words to form phrases and sentences.
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Both a and b
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4. Standard Spoken American English is the form of english spoken by most of the american _____
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Middle class
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5. Speech Community is a group of people who share a set of _____ for the use of language.
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Both a and b
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6. A specialization within anthropological linguistics that focuses on speech performance is known as Sociolinguistics.
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True
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7. Anything that can be used to communicate meaning is known as_____
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Sign
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8. Semiotics is the study of the role of signs and symbols in _____
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Both a and b
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9. Semantics is the subsystem of a language that relates words to _____
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Meaning
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10. Sapir Whorf Hypothesis is the hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of _____ are conditioned by the structure of a language.
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All of these
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11. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space is known as_____
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Proxemics
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12. The ability of humans to combine words and sounds into new meaningful utterances is known as_____
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Productivity
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13. Pidgin is a language of _____ composed of features of the original languages of two or more societies.
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Both
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14. The sound system of a language is known as_____
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Phonology
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15. Phoneme is the smallest significant unit of _____ in a language.
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Sound
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16. The sounds made by humans and used in any language refer to _____
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Phones
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17. Morphology is a system for creating _____ from sounds.
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Words
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18. The smallest units of language that have a meaning refer to _____
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Morphemes
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19. Lexicon is the total stock of _____ in a language.
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Words
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20. Kinesics is the study of body position, and _____
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All of these
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21. International Phonetic Alphabet is the system of writing designed to represent all the _____used in the different languages of the world.
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Sounds
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22. Haptics is the analysis and study of_____.
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All of these
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23. A statistical technique that linguists have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages is known as Glottochronology.
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True
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24. Gender classes usually govern agreement between _____
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All of these
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25. Free Morpheme is a unit of meaning that may stand alone as a_____ .
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Word
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26. Displacement is the capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the_____.
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Present
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27. Dialects are vocabulary constructions that deviate from those used by the socially dominant group in a society.
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False
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28. Descriptive and Structural Linguistics is the study and analysis of the_____ of particular languages.
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Structure and content
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29. Creole is a first language that is composed of elements of_____languages.
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Two or more different
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30. Core Vocabulary is a group of words that designate _____ likely to be named in all the world’s languages.
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All of these
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31. Conventionality is the notion that in human language, words are only _____ connected to the things for which they stand.
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Both a and b
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32. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families is known as Comparative Linguistics.
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True
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33. Communication is the act of _____ information.
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Transmitting
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34. The ability of individuals who speak multiple languages to move seamlessly between them is known as ______
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Code-Switching
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35. Chronemics is the study of the different ways that cultures understand _____ and use it to communicate.
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Time
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36. Call System is the form of communication among _____ composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment.
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Nonhuman Primates
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37. A unit of meaning that must be associated with another is known as_____
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Bound Morpheme
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38. Artifacts are forms of body ______ that communicate messages about individual or group identity.
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Both
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39. ______ phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language are known as Allophones.
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Two or more different
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40. African American Vernacular English is a form of english spoken by many african americans, particularly those of_____ backgrounds.
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Both a and b
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41. According to linguists, syntax is the most noticeable aspect of language change.
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False
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42. Chronemics is a form of nonverbal communication.
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True
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43. In the study of linguistics, what does AAVE stand for?
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African American Vernacular English
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44. How do forensic linguists use language to solve crimes?
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They match unique phrases and accents to geographic origin and ethnicity in order to narrow the search for suspects.
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45. Saussure divided the function of language in to two parts: the ______ which is an arbitrary and abstract system of signs, and the ______ which is the performance of language by a speaker.
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Langue; parole
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46. The ______ is what we hear or read while the ______ is the quality or object we associate with the symbol.
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Signifier; signified
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47. What is a lexicon?
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The total stock of words in a language
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48. Which concept refers to the way that humans arrange words into logical structures to convey meaning?
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Syntax
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49. The rules for combining morphemes are for all languages ______.
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Are complex and contain exceptions
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50. Anthropologists developed the International Phonic Alphabet (IPA) for what purpose?
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To represent all of the sounds used in human speech
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51. ______ is the study of how a language system relates words with meaning.
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Semantics
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52. Studies have shown that while babies don’t understand what they are saying, they nonetheless babble in consonant and vowel sounds, in a grammatic fashion, by the time they are ______ old.
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6 months
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53. What is the relationship between language and human culture?
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They evolved together and grow increasingly complex together.
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54. When anthropologists say that a symbol is conventional, what do they mean by this statement?
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Symbols are only meaningful because people agree that they share a meaning.
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55. Communication can be conveyed through which four senses?
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Visual, olfactory, auditory, and tactile
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