A good understanding of the mechanisms of language change allows you to:

a. see how biology determines language use.
b. understand the one-to-one connection between race and culture and language.
c. reconstruct ancestral languages from sets of daughter languages.
d. refute the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis.


c

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