What are genderlects? Give an example

What will be an ideal response?


They are linguistic differences in the way in which men and women talk to each other.
For example, in the United States, women tend to convey submissiveness and lack of
social power in the way they speak.

Anthropology & Archaeology

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The Neandertal __________ scenario has the best archaeological evidence to support it.

A) interbreeding B) genocide C) extinction D) intermediate

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The Middle Pleistocene humans are morphologically:

a. diverse but not broadly dispersed throughout time and space. b. similar and not broadly dispersed throughout time and space. c. similar and broadly dispersed through time, but not space. d. similar and broadly dispersed throughout time and space. e. diverse and broadly dispersed throughout time and space.

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According to the Foner and Kasinitz reading(“The Second Generation,” assigned for the Second Generation Immigrant Minorities class), the social assimilation and upward mobility of the second generation is proceeding smoothly without any problems

a. true b. false

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The best fossil evidence to suggest that Neandertals could produce a language like that of modern humans comes from which bone(s) collected at Kebara, Israel?

a. the cervical (neck) vertebrae b. the mandible c. the ribs d. the hyoid

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