Which of the Following Research Projects Would Not Belong to the Province

question 3

Multiple Choice

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)all of these (that is,a linguistic anthropologist would not be interested in any of the above research projects)

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