A Reason for the Emergence of Linguistic Anthropology in the United

question 62

Multiple Choice

A reason for the emergence of linguistic anthropology in the United States is the __________.

• A)interest in recording disappearing languages
• B)fact that so many different languages are spoken in the U.S
• C)ever-increasing need to find jobs for anthropologists
• D)inspiration from primate studies that revealed how chimpanzees could learn certain aspects of human language E none of the above: this subfield began in Europe just like all the others

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Definitions:

Level Of Significance

A threshold used in statistical hypothesis testing to determine if the null hypothesis can be rejected, commonly denoted as alpha.

Loaded Die

A die that has been tampered with to land on specific numbers more frequently than a fair die.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis in statistical analysis that suggests no significant difference or effect.

Uniformly Distributed

Describes a type of probability distribution in which all outcomes are equally likely over a certain interval.