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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is language?
Language Is a complex system of communication encompassing spoken and written forms
Language is learned through exposure and interaction, not solely genetic
The language has a rigid and fixed structure
What are the five characteristics of human?
Displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, theoretical, Duality
Displacement, productivity, descriptive, theorical
Displacement, productivity, cultural transmission, diachronic
Displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, duality, cultural transmission
What’s displacement?
Most linguists would probably agree that although many animals are able to comunícate, they do not actually have language in the sense humans do.
This is the ability to use language to talk about times, places and people other than the “here and now”.
This means that there is generally no natural, inherent relationship between the signs…
What are the other features of human language?
Reflexiveness, Discreteness
Reflective,Discreet
Discret, Reflexive
When our ancestors began to speak?
20,000- 30,000
30,000 - 100,000
23,000- 40,000
What are the two areas specialized in language processing?
Broca, basal ganglia
Broca, wernicke
Broca, brainstem
What is cultural transmission?
This refers to how language are acquired by our children.
Refers to two separate layers of language working together to provide us with a pool of sounds which we can combine to communicate with one another.
This refers that allowing us to continuously create new utterances, combining the building bricks.
which side of the brain is Broca and wernicke located on?
Right side
Left side
In front
How linguistics can be studied?
Synchronic- diachronic way
Theoretical - diachronic way
Theoretical- applied way
Descriptive- prescriptive way
What is linguistic?
Lingüístics is the branch of biology that studies the evolution of human…
Lingüístic is the study of mathematical structures in poetry, analyzing how numbers can influence…
Linguistic is the science of language(s).
