Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Voice qualities include all of the features of speech not directly related to the verbal message.
2. When a speaker uses hand movements to demonstrate how he or she grabbed someone, the speaker is using deictic gestures.
3. Parentese is an example of an arbitrary communication code.
4. Researchers have discovered that the three vowel sounds common to the “universal language” of parentese are eee, aah, and waah.
5. Studies show that blind speakers gesture as much as fully sighted speakers do.


1. true
2. false
3. false
4. false
5. true

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