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What is necessary to make generalizations about overall tendencies in human behavior under stress?
What is necessary to make generalizations about overall tendencies in human behavior under stress?
- Focusing on a single society
- Building aphoristic assumptions
- Working with a representative sample of individuals (correct)
- Envisaging a cross-cultural study
What would be a serious methodological error in research on language universals?
What would be a serious methodological error in research on language universals?
- Envisaging a cross-cultural study
- Restricting the study to a single society
- Working with a wide range of languages
- Building aphoristic assumptions about the range of variation (correct)
What is necessary to have a reasonable chance of validating a given language universal?
What is necessary to have a reasonable chance of validating a given language universal?
- Data from a wide range of languages (correct)
- Building aphoristic assumptions
- Envisaging a cross-cultural study
- Focusing on a single society
What does an implicational universal always involve?
What does an implicational universal always involve?
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What are the limits placed on the range of variation in working on language universals?
What are the limits placed on the range of variation in working on language universals?
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