What are the three things that make human language unique?

What will be an ideal response?


The three unique aspects of human language are conventionality, productivity, and displacement.

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Fossilized footprints dating to 3.6 m.y.a. were found at:

A. Olduvai. B. Laetoli. C. Platyops. D. Swartkrans. E. Hadar.

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What was the controversy that surrounded Caster Semenya, the South African middle-distance runner? a. He first competed as a man and then had a sex-change operation and competed in the female races b. She competed as a woman and the athletic

federation discovered that she had internal male sex organs. c. She first competed as a woman and then changed into a man and competed in the male races. d. Caster would not agree to disclose gender on the race forms.

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The subfield of anthropology that addresses issues of social order and conflict resolution cross-culturally is called __________

A) political anthropology B) legal anthropology C) critical anthropology D) social anthropology

Anthropology & Archaeology

The roots of linguistics, the modern scientific study of language, go back a long way to the works of ancient grammarians in _____, more than 2,000 years ago

a. South Asia b. Central Asia c. North Africa d. Australia e. Scandinavia

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