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1
A morpheme is the smallest unit of speech with sound and meaning.
A)
True.
B)
False.
2
A phoneme is the same as a short word.
A)
True.
B)
False.
3
The "-er" in shoemaker is a bound morpheme.
A)
True.
B)
False.
4
A complete description of a language is its lexicon.
A)
True.
B)
False.
5
The American linguist Noam Chomsky argues that there are a great many shared characteristics in all languages due to underlying structures of the human brain.
A)
True.
B)
False.
6
The American anthropologist Franz Boas argued that languages are all equally complex and cannot be rated on a scale from simple to more complex.
A)
True.
B)
False.
7
Cognates are words with the same meaning and similar phonemic structure in two languages.
A)
True.
B)
False.
8
Ethnosemantics is the investigation of culture specific systems of classification of animals, plants, colors, and other systems of categorization.
A)
True.
B)
False.
9
African American Vernacular English is the same thing as slang, or ungrammatical, standard English.
A)
True.
B)
False.
10
Ferdinand de Saussure is associated with the linguistic hypothesis that the way humans perceive the world is dependent upon the lexicon of the language they use.
A)
True.
B)
False.
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