Practice question · True or false
Stimulus diffusion transmits a specific technique rather than a general idea.
Hints
- What did Sequoyah actually receive?
- The idea that speech can be recorded.
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False
Why
False. Stimulus diffusion transmits the idea while the implementation is invented locally: Sequoyah, unable to read English, took the concept that speech can be written and built a syllabary of his own design. It is why writing systems appear in places that never saw the original script.
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