Multiple Choice
Just as in other areas of anthropology,the study of language involves investigating what is or isn't shared across human populations and why these differences or similarities exist.The linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that the human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language,so that all languages have a common structural basis.He calls this set of rules
A) the evolutionary linguistic imprint.
B) linguistic structuralism.
C) generalities.
D) a global mental map.
E) the universal grammar.
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