A linguistic anthropologist who studies the relationship between language and social relatives is working in the field of ______
a. ethnolinguistics
b. descriptive linguistics
c. historical linguistics
d. sociolinguistics
e. glottochronology
ANSWER:
d
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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