ADVANCED LEVEL STUDENT BOOK ANSWER KEY University Success

2. T

3. F – Sign language contains structural rules, like spoken

languages.

4. F – Every language has rule-based complexity.

5. T

6. F – Panini wrote a grammar of Sanskrit between the 6

th

and 4

th 

centuries bce.

7. T

8. F – Some linguists today continue to study ancient languages,

and others focus on dierent aspects of language.

Exercise 1D  page 6

Possible answers:

1. Three. (1) Language facilitates social interaction whenever we

ask someone a question. (2) We use language to express identity

because every person has a name, and we can use language

to describe how someone looks, feels, etc. (3) Language is a

mechanism of thought because most people think in words.

2. Possible answer: English has a complex verb system, but

adjectives are simple in that they do not have gender or number,

unlike adjectives in many languages.

Vocabulary Check B  page 6

1. systematic

2. inferior

3. comparative

4. facilitate

5. myth

6. means

7. gesture

8. cognition

SUPPORTING SKILL 1

PREVIEWING A TEXT

Exercise 2A  page 8

The reading defines “dialect” and discusses the dierences between 

dialects and languages.

Exercise 2B  page 9

1. spoken

2. Dialects and languages

3. politics

4. regional

5. social

6. disappear

Vocabulary Check B  page 10

1. stems from

2. distinction

3. quipped

4. evolve

5. complexity

6. Classification

7. blurred

8. implied

SUPPORTING SKILL 2

SCANNING

Exercise 3A  page 12

The reading defines code-switching, looks at reasons why codeswitching might occur, and discusses how linguists view codeswitching as a sign of a speaker’s communicative competence and not a 

substandard way of speaking.

Exercise 3B  page 12

1. b

2. b

3. b

4. a

5. a

6. b

Exercise 3C  page 14

1. with their own social group

2. larger group that includes speakers of a majority language or dialect

3. secret

4. “forbidden”

Vocabulary Check B  page 15

1. b

2. a

3. c

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