True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or
false.
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The
modern scientific study of languages by Europeans developed during the age of exploration and
discovery as European explorers, invaders, and missionaries collected facts about different
languages.
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2.
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Human
culture as it has evolved could not have existed without language.
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3.
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All
competent speakers of a language pronounce its phonemes the same way.
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4.
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Scholars have found no significant differences in the ways in which men and women use
language.
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5.
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Canadian Buddhists have helped preserve their heritage by using Asian languages in
religious services.
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6.
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Glottochronology assumes that the rate at which a language's core vocabulary changes
is constant and thus can be used to give an accurate date for when two languages
diverged.
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Historical linguistics is the study of the relationship between language and the
social and cultural setting in which it is used.
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8.
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First
Nations languages are less complex than either French or English.
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9.
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A law
in Quebec declares that signs on the outside of shops must be in French, even if owners and customers
are almost all non-French speaking. This would be an example of linguistic nationalism.
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10.
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You are
a Polish-speaking individual living in Canada, and you want your children to speak only English so
they will have less problems fitting-in: this would be an example of linguistic
nationalism.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best
completes the statement or answers the question.
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There
are about _____ different languages in the world today. a. | 50 | b. | 6,000 | c. | 500 | d. | 1,000,000
e.100,000 | | |
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Consider the English word "sales" (as in, "We must increase
sales.") The second "s" is _________. a. | an allophone | b. | a free morpheme | c. | a bound morpheme | d. | a vocalizer | e. | vocal qualifier | | |
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The use
of space to convey messages is called______________. a. | paralanguage | b. | kinesics | c. | metaphor | d. | proxemics | e. | metalanguage | | |
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English
is one of approximately 140 languages classified in the ____________ family. a. | Nilotic | b. | Semitic | c. | Bantu | d. | Indo-European | e. | Finno-Ugric | | |
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Standard English is more prestigious than Ebonics because
_______________. a. | Ebonics is
grammatically inadequate | b. | Ebonics is lexically limited | c. | speakers of Standard English have historically been
dominant | d. | Ebonics is too
concrete | e. | Ebonics is too
abstract | | |
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Punching the palm of the hand for emphasis, raising the head and brows when asking a
question, or using the hands to illustrate what is being discussed are forms of ____________ messages
that accompany spoken messages. a. | hidden | b. | unconscious | c. | obvious | d. | colourful | e. | gestural | | |
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The
Nuer of the Southern Sudan have more than 400 words related to__________. a. | corn | b. | millet | c. | iron working | d. | snow | e. | cattle | | |
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18.
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The
Indo-European language family is subdivided into some _______ subgroups.
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French-English bilingualism in Canada is a. | almost universal | b. | declining rapidly | c. | a source of conflict | d. | something bilingual people often make jokes
about | e. | both c and
d | | |
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Ethnolinguistics is a specialty within __________ . a. | kinesics | b. | sociolinguistics | c. | historical linguistics | d. | descriptive linguistics | e. | phonology | | |
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The
American anthropologist ___________ and his student _____________ developed the theory of linguistic
relativity. a. | Bronislaw
Malinowski, Ruth Benedict | b. | Franz Boas, Margaret Mead | c. | Gary Palmer, Anja Vogel | d. | Edward Sapir, Benjamin Whorf | e. | George Urioste, Margaret Peek | | |
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A
phoneme is __________________. a. | the smallest class of gesture that signals
meaning | b. | the largest class
of sound that has no meaning | c. | the smallest cell phone made
today | d. | the smallest class
of sound that makes a difference in meaning | e. | a rule that guides the sound patterns of
language | | |
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Phonology is _________________. a. | the study of the smallest classes of
sound | b. | the study of
allophones | c. | the study of old
phonographs | d. | the study of the
rules that guide the sound patterns of a language | e. | the study of old methods of transmitting spoken
language | | |
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The
method called ______________ enables the linguist to establish the rules and principles by which the
syntax of the language is constructed. a. | frame substitution | b. | morphology | c. | phonology | d. | glottochronology | e. | frame construction | | |
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_____________ is a method for notating and analyzing any form of body
language. a. | Glottochronology | b. | Kinesics | c. | Gesturology | d. | Frame substitution | e. | Morphology | | |
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______________ is a method of dating divergence within language
families. a. | Kinesics | b. | Morphology | c. | Glottochronology | d. | Divergenology | e. | Chronolinguistical analysis | | |
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A
phoneme can be understood as a. | a single sound with no meaning | b. | a single sound with a meaning | c. | a pair of sounds | d. | a range of sounds called allophones which speakers of a
language learn to hear as one sound and to distinguish from other groups | e. | a range of sounds called
metaphones | | |
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Dialects are, technically speaking, __________. a. | languages | b. | sub-languages | c. | language families | d. | inadequate languages | e. | simplified languages | | |
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29.
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Moving
back and forth between two dialects is an example of _____________. a. | linguistic shift | b. | code switching | c. | incomplete acculturation | d. | metonymy | e. | language loss | | |
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30.
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Asen
Balikci’s films on the Netsilik Eskimo were removed from the American Grade 5 curriculum
apparently because _______________. a. | they contained inaccurate
information | b. | they presented too
romanticized a picture of Inuit life | c. | they were too realistic | d. | they contained ethnic stereotypes | e. | there was little interest in the Inuit in the U.
S. | | |
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