Practice Quiz Chapter 04

. According to Terrence Deacon, closed primate call systems ________.

. The co-existence of multiple discourses in one language is known as ________.

. African American English ________.

. A pidgin language ________.

. ________, one of Charles Hockett's 16 design features, is the ability to talk about the same experiences from different perspectives, using different words and various grammatical constructions.

. Closed call systems lack the ability to ________.

. "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" is Noam Chomsky's example of ________.

. According to Terrence Deacon, human calls include ________.

. The following example displays structural ambiguity: ________.

. A student who uses different linguistic habits when talking to friends, family, or coworkers is displaying ________.

. ________ best explains the largest barrier to communication.

. A person who has spoken language since early childhood is known as a _________ .

. Charles Hockett listed 16 design features that differentiate human language from ________.

. Linguistic competence refers to ________.

. The hypothesis regarding the relationship between language and thought is known as ________.

. The study of the sounds that make up a language is called ________.

. Syntax has to do with how we ________.

. The term semantics refers to ________.

. Many First Nation communities are currently engaged in programs of ________.

. Inevitable changes that occur in language over time might ________.

. We can observe a variation in linguistic habits among ethnic groups and ________.

. If linguistic determinism were a fact, learning a second language would be impossible.

. While pidgin languages develop organically, creolization occurs through a formal process of language adoption.

. Women tend to use language as a social tool in public settings while men tend to use it in private settings.

. Prevarication refers to the lack of a direct connection between the form of a symbol and the symbol's function or meaning.

. Accents are due to differences in phoneme patterns.

. Metaphors make links between two different syntactic domains.

. Metaphors are easily understood by all English speakers.

. People consciously adjust their speech to conform to language ideologies.

. Discourse can be as short as a single word.

. Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf concluded that language has the power to shape the way people see the world.

. Language involves grammatical and conceptual complexities that can be analyzed to gain insight into a culture.

. If a person can reproduce the vocabulary and grammar of a native speaker of another language they will have mastered all there is to learn about that language.

. Languages specifically associated with groups of people are referred to as speech communities.

. Morphemes are basically just units of meaning that most people call words.

. Linguistic relativity asserts that language has the power to shape the way people see the world.

. The discrete sounds we speak are called phones and the functional groups of phones are called phonemes.

. Syntax is exactly the same thing as grammar.

. Pragmatics focuses on the study of language in the context of its actual use.

. Edward T. Hall has found that people communicate nonverbally through their use of time and space.

. Pidgin languages exist in less developed cultures that have not yet created full languages with complete grammars and vocabularies.

. The way women and men speak is different because of cultural factors and not biology.

. While it is hard to determine precisely, there are roughly 5000 to 6000 languages spoken in the world.

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