A Good Understanding of the Mechanisms of Language Change Allows

question 16

Multiple Choice

A good understanding of the mechanisms of language change allows you to

• A)see how biology determines language use.
• B)understand the one-to-one connection between race and culture and language.
• C)reconstruct ancestral languages from sets of daughter languages.
• D)refute the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis.

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