Linguistic Anthropology

question 22

Multiple Choice

Linguistic anthropology

• A) is a research strategy of biological anthropologists studying the emergence of language among nonhuman primates.
• B) relies heavily on the methods of phrenology.
• C) includes sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics, and the study of the biological basis for speech.
• D) includes cultural anthropology and paleoecology.
• E) has securely dated the origin of hominid language.

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