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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
Multiple Choice Questions
29. Communication always includes the transmission of
a. Ideas.
b. Thoughts.
c. Emotions.
d. Information.
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