Names
The name of the tribe in the video is the
A. Piraha
B. Amazon
A. Piraha
The name of the language of the tribe means
A. People with the straight head
B. People of the River
A. People with the straight head
The Law of Universal Grammar states that
A. all languages have words for the same emotions
B. the faculty of language is inherited genetically
B. the faculty of language is inherited genetically
Everett believes that the limitation of this language to present tense indicates (expresses):
A. happiness and contentment
B. hope for reconciliation
A. happiness and contentment
Professors Rodrigues and Suelly at the university in Brazil head the department of _______.
A. Linguistics
B. Indigenous Languages
B. Indigenous Languages
The name of the missionary turned linguistics professor is
A. Steven Pinker
B. Daniel Everett
B. Daniel Everett
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Daniel Everett claims the tribe's language has no words for
A. colors
B. hunger
A. colors
Daniel Everett believes that
A. All primates use grammar in their communication
B. Recursion can't be the universal basis for human language
B. Recursion can't be the universal basis for human language
FUNAI is the agency responsible for Brazil's ______.
A. indigenous tribes
B. flood control
A. indigenous tribes
At the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Lab at MIT, Gibson and Piantadosi find a new way to look for possible evidence of Everett's claim. They use about 1000 recorded sentences gathered mostly by _____.
A. Daniel Everett B. the missionary who preceded Dan, Steve Shelton
B. the missionary who preceded Dan, Steve Shelton
The name of the river where the tribe lives is
A. Madeira
B. Maici
B. Maici
Daniel Everett claims that the tribe has no
A. metal
B. numbers
B. numbers
What American university tries to test the claim about the language using a computer program?
A. UCLA Berkely
B. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
B. MIT
FUNAI has forbidden _____ to visit the Piraha.
A. missionaries
B. linguists
A. missionaries
The documentary film crew returns to the village to find
A. Brazilian government school and electricity
B. the village has been vacated
A. Brazilian government school and electricity
The authoritative linguistics professor who denies the uniqueness of these natives' language is
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Edward Murrow
A. Noam Chomsky
Everett claims the natives' language has no
A. past or future tense
B. word for hate
A. past or future tense
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Steven Pinker believes that variation among same languages _______ have much to do with variations of cultural traits among the speakers.
A. does B. does not
B. does not
While his appeal is being assessed, our linguist visits friends and gives a talk at the University of ______.
A. Brasilia
B. Sao Paulo
A. Brasilia
Everett sends ________ to the tribe when the documentary film crew visits them without him.
A. fish hooks and cloth
B. a recorded message
B. a recorded message
The name of the indigenous man who teaches the missionary his language is
A. Mario
B. Cohoy
B. Cohoy
According to Daniel Everett, the tribe's language shows no evidence of
A. redundancy
B. recursion
B. recursion
Steven Pinker of Harvard points out that the most radical claim of Dan Everett is that the unusual features of Piraha grammar are consequences of features of their
A. Culture
B. Geographic location
A. Culture
At the university in Brazil, the linguist's talk is attending by some of the linguistics faculty and _____ by others.
A. praised
B. boycotted
B. boycotted
After analyzing the collection of recordings in its data base, the MIT researchers determine they have
A. found clear evidence of recursion in the language
B. found no clear evidence of recursion in the language
B. found no clear evidence of recursion in the language