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lracut11

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on: Jul 10, 2018
Which of the following research projects would not belong to the province of linguistic anthropology?
 
  a. Learning about a culture by finding out which objects or events are associated with a large vocabulary
  b. Reconstructing the evolution of the big toe to find out at what time humans began to walk upright
  c. Comparing languages to see which ones can be traced back to a single unifying language
  d. Describing how, in a particular language, sounds are combined to form words and how words are combined to form sentences
  e. Studying the development and use of profanity in middle-school conversation

Question 2

The branch of anthropology that studies human languages is called:
 
  a. linguistic anthropology.
  b. ethnology.
  c. ethnography.
  d. ethnolinguistics.
  e. ethnography of speaking.


abro1885

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: a


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