ANTH 112 M2 Quiz| Complete Solutions

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In the video All the Colors including Grue, the narrator points out that:

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Answer: not all linguists agree with the ideas of
linguistic relativity

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According to the video How Languages Evolve, what is the main
difference between a language and a dialect?

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Answer: there is no defined cut
off point

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According to the video How Languages Evolve, which is NOT a reason
for language diversity?

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Answer: different brain structures among different
groups of people

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According to the video How Languages Evolve, what is a
protolanguage?

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Answer: the earliest known ancestor language in a
language family

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In the video All the Colors including Grue, the most studied linguistic
difference in terms of colors is:

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Answer: blue vs.
green

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In the video All the Colors including Grue, the narrator argues that:

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Answer: color words within a language relate to cultural
categories , and these categories vary

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In the video Do You Speak American?, the narrator points out that
African-American English historically migrated from:

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Answer: from the rural south to the urban north/midwest of
the United States

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In the video Do You Speak American?, three boys were placed in a
special education class at the Martin Luther King School in Ann Arbor.
Three mothers filed a lawsuit on the boys’ behalf, saying they were
being discriminated against on the basis of:

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Answer: Sociolinguistics – the teachers listened to their African-