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Internet Exercises
| Ethnologue: Lanuages of the World | | Click onto the "Country Index with Maps" section, and consider the following questions:- In North America, how many speakers are there of: Western Apache? Choctaw? Haida? Inuktitut- Northwest Alaskan Inupiat? Koyukon? Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett? Omaha? Ponca? Powhatan? Snohomish? Tuscarora? Wampanoag? Wintu? Zuni?
- What does this suggest to you about linguistic imperialism in American history?
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http://www.Ethnologue.com
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| Explore Linguistics | | Look up the article "Sociolinguistics." Compare the discussion here about pidgins and creoles and gender differences with the discussion in Chapter 3 of The Tapestry of Culture.
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http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore
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| Primate Use of Language | | Read the page "Primate Use of Language" created by Lauren Kosseff. Compare the abilities with language demonstrated by Kanzi, Washoe, Loulis and Nim. Based on these reports, do you think language is uniquely human? What are some of the characteristics of primate language? Is primate language the same as human language?
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http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/language.htm
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