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1. Linguistic competence refers to the subconscious knowledge of one‘s
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/f language. Answer: T /f /f




2. Language is dependent on hearing or speech. Answer: F /f /f /f /f /f /f /f /f




3. In Chapter 1, we discuss various types of animal communication because
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comparison of those systems of communication can aid us in
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/ f understanding human communication. /f /f Answer: T /f




4. All animals have a language. Answer: F
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5. Bird calls tend to be species specific. Answer: F
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6. Bird songs tend to be species specific. Answer: T
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7. All researchers now agree that apes can learn language. Answer: F
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8. A person who stutters has a problem with linguistic competence. Answer: F
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9. The fact that many new words are added to English each year demonstrates
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/f that English, like any language, is an open system. Answer: T
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10. Birds and bees generally learn most of their communication systems from
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/f other members of their social groups. Answer: F
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11. The terms language and communication can be used interchangeably
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/f because they mean the same thing. Answer: F /f /f /f /f /f /f /f




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, 12. One difference between apes‘ use of sign ―language‖ and a human‘s use of
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/ f language, is that apes seldom initiate communication whereas humans,
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/f including young children, frequently initiate communication with others.
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/f Answer: T /f




13. Humans communicate in both verbal and nonverbal ways. Answer: T
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14. Redundancy in a message helps overcome ―static‖. Answer: T /f /f /f /f /f /f /f /f




15. Bird songs are generally more elaborate than birdcalls. Answer: T
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16. The characteristic of languages that allow people to coin new words as needed
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/ f is called discreteness. Answer: F
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17. Linguistic forms, such as words or sentences, have an arbitrary relationship
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/f to their meaning. Answer: T
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18. Compared to nonhuman communication, human linguistic communication tends
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/f to be stimulus-bound. Answer: F
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19. The fact that a person can talk about the past or anticipate the future illustrates
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/f the characteristic of language called displacement. Answer: T
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20. Some researchers believe that Kanzi processes a basic understanding of
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simple grammar. Answer: T
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21. Alex the parrot, as well as the apes that have been used in language
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experiments, have been able to learn language at the level of about a five-
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/ f year-old human. /f




Answer: F


22. Culture shock occurs when a person interacts with a person or people from a
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/ f foreign culture and disorientation and anxiety occurs when social
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/f expectations are not met because of a lack of knowledge of the /f / f /f / f / f /f / f / f / f / f / f



/f norms of the other‘s culture. Answer: T
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, 23. Ethnocentrism is the act of judging other cultures by the standards of that / f / f /f /f /f / f /f /f /f /f /f / f



/f culture and not by the standards of one‘s own culture.
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24. Broca‘s area of the brain controls the larynx, lips, tongue, and other
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/f areas of the digestive and respiratory systems involved with oral and facial
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/f fine motor skills in the production of language. Answer: T
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25. Broca‘s area of the brain is the main areas of the brain involved in
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/ f the comprehension of speech and the selection of lexical items.
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26. Marc Hauser, W. Tecumseh Fitch, and Noam Chomsky believe that
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/f many nonhumans share with humans what they call the faculty of
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/f language in the narrow sense (FLN). Answer: F /f /f /f /f /f /f /f




27. Recursion is the process whereby any linguistics unit can be made longer
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/fby embedding another unit in it. Answer: T
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28. The concept of Theory of the Mind refers to a person‘s ability to know exactly
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/f what other people are thinking.
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a. Ideas.
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30. Although there might be universal aspects of all languages that are innate,
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