LING 1010 TEST QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
7 years
According to research by Johnson and Newport, at what age does the critical period for
language acquisition begin to close?
A language that children create when they are exposed to a pidgin.
What is a creole language?
The age at which the process starts.
When it comes to learning a second language, the key factor for success (ie. native-like fluency)
is:
Stages of first language acquisition.
Which of the following is claimed to be an argument in favor of Innate Universal Grammar?
Critical period effects are quite general in the animal kingdom.
Which of the following statements is true?
In about the same time and with the same stages as hearing children who acquire spoken
language.
When deaf children are exposed to a sign language from birth, they acquire mastery of the sign
language:
Signing used by deaf people, typically children and their family, who have not had exposure
to a developed language.
Home Sign is...
To practice the motor skills necessary for articulation.
The function of babbling in babies is:
, It is unlikely that these dialects will lead to different languages because of the global
connections between them due to internet and other international communication channels.
English is spoken in many places in the world, showing many different dialects of this language.
Which of the following statements is correct?
This is false; all people can create iconic signs.
The ability to form iconic signs only exist when people are deaf.
The settings of parameter values are the same in all languages.
Which of the following statements about the principles and parameters theory of language that
Chomsky has proposed is FALSE?
Creoles are acquired as a first language, while pidgins are not.
The crucial difference between a pidgin and a creole language is that:
These cases are evidence for the Critical Period Hypothesis.
What do cases like Genie tall us about language acquisition?
After a group of speakers divide into two populations, their languages will change in different
ways, which gives rise to new languages.
According to the splitting model new languages arise because:
Recursion
Which of the following is claimed by Noam Chomsky to be an example of a language universal
that applies to all languages and only to languages.
The poverty of the stimulus argument
What is the proper term for the argument that the input received by the child in the process of
language acquisition is too poor to explain the rich grammatical knowledge that the child ends
up with?
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
7 years
According to research by Johnson and Newport, at what age does the critical period for
language acquisition begin to close?
A language that children create when they are exposed to a pidgin.
What is a creole language?
The age at which the process starts.
When it comes to learning a second language, the key factor for success (ie. native-like fluency)
is:
Stages of first language acquisition.
Which of the following is claimed to be an argument in favor of Innate Universal Grammar?
Critical period effects are quite general in the animal kingdom.
Which of the following statements is true?
In about the same time and with the same stages as hearing children who acquire spoken
language.
When deaf children are exposed to a sign language from birth, they acquire mastery of the sign
language:
Signing used by deaf people, typically children and their family, who have not had exposure
to a developed language.
Home Sign is...
To practice the motor skills necessary for articulation.
The function of babbling in babies is:
, It is unlikely that these dialects will lead to different languages because of the global
connections between them due to internet and other international communication channels.
English is spoken in many places in the world, showing many different dialects of this language.
Which of the following statements is correct?
This is false; all people can create iconic signs.
The ability to form iconic signs only exist when people are deaf.
The settings of parameter values are the same in all languages.
Which of the following statements about the principles and parameters theory of language that
Chomsky has proposed is FALSE?
Creoles are acquired as a first language, while pidgins are not.
The crucial difference between a pidgin and a creole language is that:
These cases are evidence for the Critical Period Hypothesis.
What do cases like Genie tall us about language acquisition?
After a group of speakers divide into two populations, their languages will change in different
ways, which gives rise to new languages.
According to the splitting model new languages arise because:
Recursion
Which of the following is claimed by Noam Chomsky to be an example of a language universal
that applies to all languages and only to languages.
The poverty of the stimulus argument
What is the proper term for the argument that the input received by the child in the process of
language acquisition is too poor to explain the rich grammatical knowledge that the child ends
up with?
