Language, culture and society

1. It is a system of communication uniquely associated with humans and distinguished by its capacity to express complex ideas.

• Communication

• Language

• Word

2. The linguistic anthropologist ________ conducted a pioneering feature study of language. In his study, he listed 13 design features that he deemed to be universal across the world’s languages.

• Charles Francis Hockett

• Michael Halliday

• Ferdinand de Saussure

3. It is a feature of language where natural language is vocally transmitted by speakers as speech sounds and auditorily received by listeners as speech waves.

• interchangeability

• Transitoriness

• Vocal-auditory Language

4. He studied the approximately seven basic purposes or functions for which the child uses language, also known as ‘developmental functions’ or ‘micro functions’.

• Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday

• Charles Hockett

• Ferdinand de Saussure

5. It is the fourth function of the children’s language, they use it to express their awareness of themselves and of the fact that they are separate from the surrounding environment.

• Instrumental function

• Personal Function

• Regulatory function

6. The language used by the child to interact with the people around them, as opposed to controlling their behavior, is known as language in its ___________.

• Interactional Function

• Instrumental function

• Heuristic function

7. ­­­_____________ is the way anything non-human communicates without the use of words. An example of this would be when a cat hisses at another cat.

• Language function

• Language features

• non-human communication

8. Which frequency suffers to heat loss and scattering of sounds?

• Low frequency

• high frequency

• Intermediate frequency

9. All animal signals degrade as they ________.

• propagate

• Grow old

• Evolve

10. How does a “bee” tells other bees where flowers are located?

• Singing

• dancing

• tapping