Jessica's Advisor Recommends That Jessica Take Courses in at Least

question 131

Multiple Choice

Jessica's advisor recommends that Jessica take courses in at least one foreign language because, he says, there are some thoughts that simply cannot occur to people who speak only one language. Her advisor's opinion is probably based on _____.

• A)Chomsky's language acquisition device concept
• B)Premack's artificial language research
• C)the linguistic relativity hypothesis
• D)Pinker's research on grammar and communications
• E)recent research with gorillas and chimpanzees

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Definitions:

Asthenosphere

A region of the upper mantle of the Earth, below the lithosphere, where rocks are relatively soft and can flow slowly.

Oceanic Fracture Zone

Crack or step in elevation of the seafloor that formed as a transform fault along a mid-ocean ridge but is no longer a plate boundary.

Mantle

The thick layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core, constituting most of the Earth's volume and involved in tectonic processes.

Melting

The process by which a solid substance changes to a liquid state due to an increase in temperature and/or a decrease in pressure.