LING 1010 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
2025, ALL WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following categories is a pidgin most likely
lacking a. Nouns and verbs
b. Prepositions and conjunctions
c. Nouns and adjectives
B
When it comes to learning a second language, the key factor for success (i.e. native-like
ability) is:
a. The length of time the individual is exposed to the new language
b. The age at which the process starts
c. Being exposed to the language in a classroom
B
Grammaticalization is:
a. The historical process whereby affixes become free-standing words.
b. The process to teach a child to speak grammatical sentences through constant correction
c. The historical process whereby nouns or verbs become affixes
C
Take sentence pairs such as the following:
"The boy is sick" - "Is the boy sick?"
"The boy, who is naughty, is sick" - "Is the boy, who is naughty, sick?"
The best rule to describe this is: Take the auxiliary from the main sentence and put it
before the subject. This shows that grammatical rules such as this are:
, a. Structure dependent
b. Innate
c. Learned very early
A
Which of the following are arguments in favor of a Universal Grammar?
a. Morphology, first language acquisition, pidgins
b. Stages of language acquisition, phonology, the Critical Period
c. Stages of language acquisition, language universals, poverty of the stimulus
C
The theory of monogenesis (which is about the origin of all languages) says
that: a. All languages have developed independently in different areas of the
world b. All languages have come into existence through divine intervention c.
All languages have developed from one original language
C
To find out what very young infants, who cannot speak yet, know we use:
a. Questionnaires
b. Habituation/dis-habituation studies
c. Sign language
B
According to Derek Bickerton a creole language is created by:
a. children whose linguistic input consists of a pidgin spoken in their community
b. people who need to have a secret language
c. adults who are forced to communicate with each other over a long period of time
without having a shared language
A
2025, ALL WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following categories is a pidgin most likely
lacking a. Nouns and verbs
b. Prepositions and conjunctions
c. Nouns and adjectives
B
When it comes to learning a second language, the key factor for success (i.e. native-like
ability) is:
a. The length of time the individual is exposed to the new language
b. The age at which the process starts
c. Being exposed to the language in a classroom
B
Grammaticalization is:
a. The historical process whereby affixes become free-standing words.
b. The process to teach a child to speak grammatical sentences through constant correction
c. The historical process whereby nouns or verbs become affixes
C
Take sentence pairs such as the following:
"The boy is sick" - "Is the boy sick?"
"The boy, who is naughty, is sick" - "Is the boy, who is naughty, sick?"
The best rule to describe this is: Take the auxiliary from the main sentence and put it
before the subject. This shows that grammatical rules such as this are:
, a. Structure dependent
b. Innate
c. Learned very early
A
Which of the following are arguments in favor of a Universal Grammar?
a. Morphology, first language acquisition, pidgins
b. Stages of language acquisition, phonology, the Critical Period
c. Stages of language acquisition, language universals, poverty of the stimulus
C
The theory of monogenesis (which is about the origin of all languages) says
that: a. All languages have developed independently in different areas of the
world b. All languages have come into existence through divine intervention c.
All languages have developed from one original language
C
To find out what very young infants, who cannot speak yet, know we use:
a. Questionnaires
b. Habituation/dis-habituation studies
c. Sign language
B
According to Derek Bickerton a creole language is created by:
a. children whose linguistic input consists of a pidgin spoken in their community
b. people who need to have a secret language
c. adults who are forced to communicate with each other over a long period of time
without having a shared language
A
