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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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Taita of Kenya relate anger with __________
a. envy b. violence c. emotional freedom d. illness
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A) there are few buyers B) makeup is not a homogeneous good C) there are few sellers D) sellers are price takers