1- Which of the following statements holds for number marking in Yucatec Mayan?

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1- Which of the following statements holds for number marking in Yucatec Mayan?

Yucatec Mayan patterns like English with respect to unitization and pluralization

Yucatec Mayan requires numeral classifiers but not overt plural marking

Yucatec Mayan requires overt plural marking for nouns that are animate

Yucatec Mayan patterns like English with respect to classification of objects

2- The role of children in language socialization is completely passive.

True

False

3- According to the color hierarchy proposed by Berlin & Kay (1969), if a language has a basic color term for 'green' it will also necessarily have a basic color term for 'blue'.

True

False

4- In her research on acquisitionWestern Samoan, Ochs found that Western Samoan children acquire the ergative marker later than children who speak other ergative languages because of:

the low frequency of use of ergative markers by all adults in Western Samoan communities

the high frequency of use of ergative markers by adult female speakers compared to adult male speakers

ways that social relationships influence the use of ergative markers in Western Samoan communites

greater complexity in the Western Samoan grammatical system, which leads to more difficulty in learning

5- One of Rosch's contributions to the color studies was to show that color perception is:

culture-specific

hierarchically governed

strongly determined by language constraints

a perceptual universal

Yucatec Mayan patterns like English with respect to unitization and pluralization

Yucatec Mayan requires numeral classifiers but not overt plural marking

Yucatec Mayan requires overt plural marking for nouns that are animate

Yucatec Mayan patterns like English with respect to classification of objects

Explanation / Answer

Yucatec mayan requires numeral classifiers but not overt plural marking as the main focus is on numerals preceding the object or not True as the children dont even know how and when they are thought the social language False as green occurs in stage 3 and 4 wheras blue occurs in stage 5 Low frequency of use of ergative markers by all adults in western samoan communities as the low use makes it relatively less prevalent Strongly determined by language constraints as the reslts show thay are determined by prototypes of languages

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