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ETearle

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____ are characteristic patterns of language that apply across all of the languages of various cultures.
 
  a. Speech similarities
 b. Scripts
 c. Similes
 d. Linguistic universals

Question 2

When research participants are shown ambiguous figures that are labeled in a particular way (for example, a crescent shape is labeled as a crescent moon or as the letter C), their subsequent drawings of the ambiguous figure look like the label. Results like these support the ____.
 
  a. dual-system hypothesis
 b. single-system hypothesis
 c. linguistic relativity hypothesis
  d. linguistic universals hypothesis



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c



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