Linguistic Anthropology ACTUAL
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
anthropology - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅study of humans in all times and places (holistic,
comparative, fieldwork-based discipline)
theoretical linguistics - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅study of language from structural point
of view, without much attention to cultural contexts of language use
linguistic anthropology - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅study of language from anthropological
perspective
feature/componential analysis - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅method for revealing culturally
important features by which speakers of a language distinguish different words in a semantic
domain
frames - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅created by words
invoke metaphors, grouping ideas into commonly used phrases and influencing the way we
experience things
linguistic relativity - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅idea that languages are different, are
arbitrary systems, and that knowing one language does not allow you to predict how another
language will categorize and name the world
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅concept of linguistic determinism
(language affects ability to perceive, think, and talk about things)
allophone - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅variant form of a phoneme
member of a group of sounds that together form a singe phoneme
ex =
, minimal pair - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅pair of words in which a difference in sound
makes a difference in meaning
ex = bat, cat
paralanguage - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅(prosody) sounds that accompany speech bat are
not directly part of language
ex = mhm, uh-oh, ugh
phone - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a sound on a phonetic chart
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅sound that functions to distinguish one world from
another in a language
phonemic chart - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅chart that shows just the distinctive sounds of a
language (phonemes)
phonemics - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅analysis of way sounds are arranged in languages
phonetic chart - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅chart that shows all sounds of a language
phonetics - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅identification and descriptions of language sounds
phonology - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅study of language sounds
affix - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a morpheme that attaches to a base to form new words
ex =
allomorph - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a variant form of a morpheme
base - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅morpheme to which an affix can be attached, serving as a
foundation for building other words
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
anthropology - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅study of humans in all times and places (holistic,
comparative, fieldwork-based discipline)
theoretical linguistics - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅study of language from structural point
of view, without much attention to cultural contexts of language use
linguistic anthropology - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅study of language from anthropological
perspective
feature/componential analysis - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅method for revealing culturally
important features by which speakers of a language distinguish different words in a semantic
domain
frames - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅created by words
invoke metaphors, grouping ideas into commonly used phrases and influencing the way we
experience things
linguistic relativity - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅idea that languages are different, are
arbitrary systems, and that knowing one language does not allow you to predict how another
language will categorize and name the world
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅concept of linguistic determinism
(language affects ability to perceive, think, and talk about things)
allophone - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅variant form of a phoneme
member of a group of sounds that together form a singe phoneme
ex =
, minimal pair - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅pair of words in which a difference in sound
makes a difference in meaning
ex = bat, cat
paralanguage - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅(prosody) sounds that accompany speech bat are
not directly part of language
ex = mhm, uh-oh, ugh
phone - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a sound on a phonetic chart
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅sound that functions to distinguish one world from
another in a language
phonemic chart - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅chart that shows just the distinctive sounds of a
language (phonemes)
phonemics - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅analysis of way sounds are arranged in languages
phonetic chart - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅chart that shows all sounds of a language
phonetics - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅identification and descriptions of language sounds
phonology - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅study of language sounds
affix - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a morpheme that attaches to a base to form new words
ex =
allomorph - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a variant form of a morpheme
base - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅morpheme to which an affix can be attached, serving as a
foundation for building other words
