Question

1- One result from Lucy's study on Yucatec Maya and English is that:

	a.	Yucatec speakers are consistent in their classification of objects, but English speakers exhibit high variability
	b.	Yucatec speakers typically classify objects based on substance whereas English speakers typically classify based on shape
	c.	Yucatec speakers typically classify objects based on shape whereas English speakers typically classify based on substance
	d.	Yucatec speakers and English speakers exhibit no significant differences in the way that they classify objects

2- Language socialization is a process that speakers are always explicitly aware of.

True

False

3- Research in language socialization has demonstrated that:

	a.	parents speaking to children directly is a uniform feature of children's acquisition profiles
	b.	the use of Child Directed Speech in a community relates directly to a child's ability to acquire language
	c.	across the globe, parents interact with young children in universal ways that transcend cultural and environmental differences
	d.	across the globe, parents interact with young children in diverse ways based on aspects such as ideologies and language practices that are specific to a particular community

4- The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is a hypothesis about the relation between language and which other element(s)? (Select all that apply)

	a.	culture
	b.	thought
	c.	gender
	d.	grammar

Answer 1

1. ?b. Yucatec speakers typically classify objects based on substance whereas english speakers typically classify based on shape as the yucatec speakers determine it as shapeless if its preceded by numerals and english speakers always see it as shapeless
2. b. False as the speakers may not be aware of it that they are speaking in order to teach someone else and sometimes they may engage in the process unknowingly and teach someone certain aspects of language
3. d. Across the globe, parents interact with the yound children in diverse ways based on aspects such as ideologies and language practices that are specific to a particular community as the researches state that all the cultures use this process differently and deviance is present because of cultural differences
4. b. Thought as it relates it to thought saying language determines thought and linguistic categories determine cognitive aspects as well as the linguistic categories determine thought process and decisions here thought is common in both the parts hence the focus is to relate language to thought