Linguistic anthropology
A. includes cultural anthropology and paleoecology.
B. has securely dated the origin of hominid language.
C. is a research strategy of biological anthropologists studying the emergence of language among nonhuman primates.
D. includes sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics, and the study of the biological basis for speech.
E. relies heavily on the methods of phrenology.
Answer: D
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