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Test Bank for A Concise Introduction to Linguistics, 6th edition by

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Chapter 1: The Nature of Communication

True/False Questions



1. Linguistic competence refers to the subconscious knowledge of one’s language. Answer:

T



2. Language is dependent on hearing or speech. Answer: F



3. In Chapter 1, we discuss various types of animal communication because comparison of

those systems of communication can aid us in understanding human communication.

Answer: T



4. All animals have a language. Answer: F



5. Bird calls tend to be species specific. Answer: F



6. Bird songs tend to be species specific. Answer: T



7. All researchers now agree that apes can learn language. Answer: F



8. A person who stutters has a problem with linguistic competence. Answer: F

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9. The fact that many new words are added to English each year demonstrates that English,

like any language, is an open system. Answer: T



10. Birds and bees generally learn most of their communication systems from other members

of their social groups. Answer: F



11. The terms language and communication can be used interchangeably because they mean

the same thing. Answer: F



12. One difference between apes’ use of sign “language” and a human’s use of language, is

that apes seldom initiate communication whereas humans, including young children, frequently

initiate communication with others. Answer: T



13. Humans communicate in both verbal and nonverbal ways. Answer: T



14. Redundancy in a message helps overcome “static”. Answer: T



15. Bird songs are generally more elaborate than birdcalls. Answer: T



16. The characteristic of languages that allow people to coin new words as needed is called

discreteness. Answer: F




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17. Linguistic forms, such as words or sentences, have an arbitrary relationship to their

meaning. Answer: T



18. Compared to nonhuman communication, human linguistic communication tends to be

stimulus-bound. Answer: F



19. The fact that a person can talk about the past or anticipate the future illustrates the

characteristic of language called displacement. Answer: T



20. Some researchers believe that Kanzi processes a basic understanding of simple grammar.

Answer: T



21. Alex the parrot, as well as the apes that have been used in language experiments, have

been able to learn language at the level of about a five-year-old human.

Answer: F




22. Culture shock occurs when a person interacts with a person or people from a foreign

culture and disorientation and anxiety occurs when social expectations are not met because of a

lack of knowledge of the norms of the other’s culture. Answer: T



23. Ethnocentrism is the act of judging other cultures by the standards of that culture and not

by the standards of one’s own culture. Answer: F



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24. Broca’s area of the brain controls the larynx, lips, tongue, and other areas of the digestive

and respiratory systems involved with oral and facial fine motor skills in the production of

language. Answer: T



25. Broca’s area of the brain is the main areas of the brain involved in the comprehension of

speech and the selection of lexical items. Answer. F.



26. Marc Hauser, W. Tecumseh Fitch, and Noam Chomsky believe that many nonhumans

share with humans what they call the faculty of language in the narrow sense (FLN). Answer: F



27. Recursion is the process whereby any linguistics unit can be made longer by embedding

another unit in it. Answer: T



28. The concept of Theory of the Mind refers to a person’s ability to know exactly what other

people are thinking. Answer: F

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29. Communication always includes the transmission of

a. Ideas.

b. Thoughts.

c. Emotions.

d. Information.



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