Which of the following is the best example of a synchronic study of language?
a. How greetings have changed in English during the past 200 years
b. Analyzing the word origins of “percussion”
c. Interpreting the colonialist legacy in the Swahili language
d. Separating out English words that have been borrowed from other languages
e. Comparative analysis of conjunctions in English and Spanish
ANS: E
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a. True b. False
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