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When learning language, the human instinct is to:
 
  a. Learn the language your father speaks.
  b. Learn the language your mother speaks.
  c. Learn the language of the group in which you are socialized.
  d. Humans do not have an instinct to learn language.
  e. Learn as many languages as possible.

Question 2

Charles Hockett argues that the following two steps were critical in the evolution of human language:
 
  a. Productivity and displacement.
  b. Displacement and blending.
  c. Blending and dual structure.
  d. Blending and duality of patterning.
  e. Duality of pattern and productivity.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D



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