Test Bank for A Concise Introduction to Linguistics, 6th edition Bruce Rowe and Diane Levine All Chapters 1-14 Covered

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Chapter 1 The Nature of Communication
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1. Linguistic competence refers to the subconscious knowledge of
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ss one‘s language. Answer: Tss ss ss




2. Language is dependent on hearing or speech. Answer: F
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3. In Chapter 1, we discuss various types of animal communication
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ss because comparison of those systems of communication can aid us in
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s s understanding human communication. Answer: T ss ss ss




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
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ss demonstrates that English, ss s s s s like any language,
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ss system. Answer: T s s ss




10. Birds and bees generally learn most of their communication systems
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ss from other members of their social groups. Answer: F
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11. The terms language and communication can be used
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ss interchangeably because they mean the same thing. Answer: F ss ss ss ss ss ss ss ss




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




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
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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
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ss needed is called discreteness. Answer: F
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17. Linguistic forms, such as words or sentences, have an arbitrary
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ss relationship to their meaning. Answer: T ss ss ss ss ss




18. Compared to nonhuman communication, human linguistic communication
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ss tends 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
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ss illustrates the characteristic of language called displacement. Answer: T
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20. Some researchers believe that Kanzi processes a basic understanding
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ss of 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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ss experiments, have been able to learn language at the level of about a
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ss five- s s year-old human. ss




Answer: F


22. Culture shock occurs when a person interacts with a person or people
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ss from a ss s s foreign culture and disorientation and anxiety occurs when social
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ss expectations are not met because of a lack of knowledge of the
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s s norms of the other‘s culture. Answer: T
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, 23. Ethnocentrism s s is s s the act of judgingss ss ss s s other cultures by the standards of
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s s that culture ss s s and s s not s s by s s the s s standards s s of s s one‘s s s own s s culture.
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24. Broca‘s s s area s s of s s the s s brain s s controls s s the s s larynx, s s lips, s s tongue, s s and
s s other areas of the digestive and respiratory systems involved with oral
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ss and facial 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
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ss in s s the comprehension of speech and the selection of lexical
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ss items. Answer. F.
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26. Marc Hauser, W. Tecumseh Fitch, and Noam Chomsky believe
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ss that many nonhumans share with humans what they call the
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ss faculty of language in the narrow sense (FLN). Answer: F
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27. Recursion is the process whereby any linguistics unit can be made
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ss longer by 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
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ss exactly what other people are thinking. Answer: F
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Multiple Choice Questions
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a. Ideas.
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30. Although there might be universal aspects of all languages that are
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ss innate, specific languages are
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