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Sapir played a significant role in developing the concept of what in linguistics?
The phoneme
The morpheme
Syntax
Pragmatics
Answer
The phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference in meaning. For example, the words "bat" and "pat" have different meanings because they have different phonemes. Sapir played a significant role in developing the concept of the phoneme, and he argued that phonemes are the building blocks of language.
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True or False: Edward Sapir demonstrated that the methods of comparative linguistics could not be applied to indigenous languages.
Edward Sapir specialized in the study of what family of languages?
Sapir also worked with which other languages later in his career?
In addition to his linguistic work, Sapir was an early proponent of the importance of what to anthropology?
Which of the following languages did Sapir NOT significantly work with?
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