Nhận biết (M1)

Tunica, an Indigenous language of the lower Mississippi Valley in what are now the United States, has mili for "red," while milimilita is what one says of several red things. The phenomenon at work—a piece of a root word coming back, sometimes altered, inside another word tied to that same root—is called reduplication. Here the whole word mili returns inside milimilita. Reduplication of just this kind turns up again and again throughout the Tunica language.

Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

• A.

  It sets out particular Tunica words, describes the general linguistic phenomenon they exemplify, and then states that the phenomenon is frequent in Tunica.

• B.

  It picks out the words occurring most often in Tunica, explains what makes them hard to render in English, and then offers other languages they can be rendered into.

• C.

  It explains the phenomenon of reduplication, reviews what has made it controversial among scholars, and then argues that Tunica could settle the controversy.

• D.

  It describes how Tunica stands to several other languages, raises a question about that relation, and then answers it.