Exam 5: Language as a Barrier

In 1990,a federal district court ruled Arizona's English-only law violated what constitutional guarantee?

Recently,voice translators involving speech recognition,machine translation,and voice synthesis have been developed for handheld devices for use between English and ______.

What is language?

The indigenous language of the Māori has nearly disappeared from New Zealand.

The second most widely spoken first languages in the world is ______.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis asserts that reality is embedded in a culture's ______.

The most well-known creole language is ______.

Because of the interconnection between the Islamic religion and the Arabic language,______.

How can back translation improve the effectiveness of intercultural communication?

In the interpretation of linguistic relativism,the difference between languages is not what can be said,but ______.

How do linguists trace the origins of language?

In 2009,the Texas-border state of Tamaulipas declared itself the first bilingual state in Mexico.

Since 1950,the requirement for U.S.citizenship has been "to read,write,and speak words in ordinary English."

In some Asian languages,one word can refer to both "food" and "rice."

Compare the Arabic language to English.

Discuss and give examples for the translation problems related to concepts.

Translation of the English word democracy into Russian is an example of the translation problem called experiential equivalence.

The third most widely spoken first languages in the world is ______.

Westerners favor ______ whereas Easterners favor relationships.

Only about a third of English sentences lack a ______.