Just as in Other Areas of Anthropology,the Study of Language

question 16

Multiple Choice

Just as in other areas of anthropology,the study of language involves investigating what is or isn't shared across human populations and why these differences or similarities exist.The linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that the human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language,so that all languages have a common structural basis.He calls this set of rules

• A) the evolutionary linguistic imprint.
• B) linguistic structuralism.
• C) generalities.
• D) a global mental map.
• E) the universal grammar.

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Definitions:

Posterior Probabilities

The probabilities updated in light of new evidence, reflecting the likelihood of events after taking into account the known data.

Prior Probabilities

The probabilities of events based on prior knowledge before any new evidence is considered.

Likelihood Probabilities

The probabilities that quantify the plausibility of different parameter values for a statistical model given the observed data.

Posterior Probabilities

The probabilities that are adjusted after taking into account known or observed evidence, particularly in the context of Bayesian inference.