A Key Feature of Language That Helps Explain Anthropologists' Continued

question 36

Multiple Choice

A key feature of language that helps explain anthropologists' continued interest in studying it is that it

• A) enables us to compare human and nonhuman primate linguistic grammars.
• B) tells us a lot about the present, although nothing about the past.
• C) is always changing.
• D) helps them distinguish between the more and less evolved human races.
• E) rarely changes, so it provides a good window into linguistic uses of the past.