Chapter 5: Communication and Language

Question 1

Bullet point 3 types of nonverbal human communication

Answer 1

Posture
Mannerisms
Facial expressions

Question 2

What’s the function of language

Answer 2

Spoken or vocal language is probably the major transmitter of culture, allowing us to share & pass on our complex configuration of attitudes, beliefs, & patterns of behaviors

Question 3

Is silence a form of language

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Bullet point 3 types of nonhuman communication

Answer 4

Sound
Odor
Body movement/calls(symbolic communication)

Question 5

Explain the difference between and open and closed system

Answer 5

Human language is open system governed by complex rules about how sounds and sequences of sounds can be combined to produce an infinite variety of meanings. Other primates’ vocal systems are closed: different calls aren’t combined to produce an infinite variety of meanings.

Question 6

Do children learn language at the same time

Answer 6

Yes, a child is equipped from birth with the capacity to reproduce all sounds used by world’s languages and to learn any system of grammar

Question 7

Match: phonology

Answer 7

Slightly varying sounds are often used interchangeably in words w/o creating a different meaning

Question 8

Match: morphology

Answer 8

Study of words

Question 9

Match: morph

Answer 9

Smallest unit of language that has a meaning

Question 10

Match: syntax

Answer 10

How words are strung together to form phrases and sentences

Question 11

How does linguistic divergence occur

Answer 11

Diffusion (geographical boundaries)

Question 12

What is code-switching

Answer 12

Using more than 1 language in the course of conversing