Sociolinguistic study of English language use has shown that
A) unlike other languages, in English gender makes no differences in language use.
B) boys tend to pronounce the -g in words such as talking, singing, and going more often than girls do.
C) people tend to imitate the speech patterns of more prestigious social groups.
D) in conversation women interrupt men more often than men interrupt women.
E) B and D.
C
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b. If many cultures currently have or have had gender equality, this would indicate that modern societies couldachieve gender equality. c. The fact that other cultures have gender equality could be used as evidence that societies with a genderhierarchy are backwards or primitive. d. None of these; anthropologists are not particularly concerned with the question of equality.
Which of the following is true about prosimians?
A. Prosimians are not primates. B. Prosimians lack many of the features of monkeys, apes, and humans. C. Prosimians are the primitive ancestral forms of modern monkeys, apes, and humans. D. All of these statements are true.
The Acheulean tradition is characterized by core choppers that were made by removing flakes from one end of a core
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
According to the Marger reading (“Pluralism,"assigned for the Assimilation versus Pluralism class), ethnic pluralism is really the same thing as assimilation
a. true b. false