Chapter 4 Student Quiz 1

. The use of baby animals or birds of prey to represent sports teams is

phonology.

morphology.

symbolic.

a sign.

. A pidgin language is

the same as slang.

language of mixed origin that developed from complex blending of two parent languages.

a mixed language with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue.

a creole language.

. When colonial powers introduced their own language as the official language in their colonies they were enforcing their

symbolic vernacular.

language ideology.

language creolization.

cultural stability.

. Animals communicate with each other through

language.

call systems.

American Sign Language.

symbolism.

. The study of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society is called

sociolinguistics.

phonetics.

linguistics.

speech pathology.

. The notions people have about the superiority of one dialect or language and the inferiority of others are

linguistic relativity.

sociolinguistics.

language ideology.

phonetics.

. There are two distinct evolutionary traits that have allowed humans' language development. One is the larynx, which gives us the capacity to speak. The second is

a malleable tongue, which gives us to articulate subtle sound differences.

the brain capacity to combine sounds to create infinite symbolic meanings.

the culture concept, which formed language groups.

diminished hearing and sight, which required alternate means of communication.

. Philology is

the idea of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society.

the idea that people speaking different languages perceive the world differently.

ideologies people have about the superiority of one dialect or language and the inferiority of others.

the approach that compares ancient texts and documents to analyze long-term linguistic change.

. What is not true of animal call systems?

They respond to real-world stimuli.

They are similar across communities of the same species.

Calls can be combined to make new meanings.

They cannot express information about things not present in their current environment.

. What do anthropologists call regional or social variations of a single language?

accents and dialects

pidgin languages

hybrid manifestations

creole languages

. A sociolinguist would be most interested in

the protolanguage of French and Italian.

the evolutionary development of the larynx.

how gender affects the way people talk to one another.

the process of translating spoken word to text.

. Which is not true of language?

It is unique to humans.

It can change very quickly.

It reflects other aspects of culture such as class and gender.

People are entirely aware of the structure of the language they speak.

. What human evolutionary feature allowed for the development of language?

large brains

unique larynx

teeth

sound response system

. Talking about America as a melting pot is an example of a(n)

elaborating symbol.

metaphor.

cognate.

simile.

. The idea that people speaking different languages perceive the world differently is known as

philology.

socio-linguicism.

linguistic relativity.

perspectival linguistics.

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