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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

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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?

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?

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?

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What are the limits placed on the range of variation in working on language universals?

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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

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Questions and Answers

What is necessary to make generalizations about overall tendencies in human behavior under stress?

What would be a serious methodological error in research on language universals?

What is necessary to have a reasonable chance of validating a given language universal?

What does an implicational universal always involve?

What are the limits placed on the range of variation in working on language universals?

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