What is the study of the sounds used in speech?

A. phones
B. phonemes
C. phonology
D. phonetics
E. phonemics


Answer: C

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A. innate behavior B. learned behavior C. imitation of human activity D. learned behavior and imitation of human activity

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How has the role of anthropologists as collaborators or advocates changed over the years? Give specific examples.

What will be an ideal response?

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Analogies justified by similarities in the formal attributes of archaeological and ethnographic objects and features are known as

a. formal analogies. b. relational analogies. c. middle-level analogies. d. uniformitarian analogies. e. taphonomy

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A discontinuous distribution is one in which:

A. frequencies show a gradation B. a trait shows little or no gradation in frequencies between adjacent populations C. high frequencies of the trait are found everywhere D. low frequencies of the trait are found everywhere

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