LING 1010 TEST QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
The input that each child is exposed to is finite; the output they can produce is
potentially infinite.
Choose the correct statement.
Eric Lenneberg
The critical period hypothesis for language is originally due to:
A pidgin is a very simple communication system created by adults who do not speak the same
language but are forced to communicate with each other for an extended period of time.
What is a pidgin?
An innate system that precedes the activation of LAD/UG in language acquisition.
What is meant by 'proto-language' (or: the proto-language capacity, PLC)?
A statement which says that languages have one of usually two choices for a certain
property like word order in the verb phrase.
What is a disjunctive universal?
All languages have developed from one original language.
The theory of monogenesis (which is about the origin of all languages) says that:
The period during which children must be exposed to their first language to achieve
native fluency.
What is the "critical period for language acquisition?"
, Children still have access to their innate language learning system (LAD/UG), but adults do
not.
Why is it that children can create a Creole, but adults cannot?
The fact that in all languages syntactic transformations follow the principle of structure
dependence.
Which of the following does NOT provide crucial evidence for the critical period?
(1) Spontaneously, based on home sign systems (as in the case of Nicaraguan sign language),
(2) due to language split (leading to language families), and (3) due to language merger
(ie. pidginization and creolization)
In addition to constructing them as artificial languages (such as Esperanto or Dothraki)
there are at least three ways in which new languages can arise:
A language that is only used within a small population, that is overshadowed by a so-called
'killer language' which is used in educational systems, the government, and the media.
What do we mean by an endangered language?
Telegraphic stage
Which of the following is a stage of language acquistion?
When children are given explicit instructions or corrections, they tend to ignore them.
Why is explicit instruction by parents unlikely to help children in the process of first
language acquisition?
Language splitting and language families
The hunter-gatherer life style of our ancestors gave rise to:
If a property is present in all languages, then it must be the case that this property is part
of the innate capacity for language.
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
DETAILED VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
The input that each child is exposed to is finite; the output they can produce is
potentially infinite.
Choose the correct statement.
Eric Lenneberg
The critical period hypothesis for language is originally due to:
A pidgin is a very simple communication system created by adults who do not speak the same
language but are forced to communicate with each other for an extended period of time.
What is a pidgin?
An innate system that precedes the activation of LAD/UG in language acquisition.
What is meant by 'proto-language' (or: the proto-language capacity, PLC)?
A statement which says that languages have one of usually two choices for a certain
property like word order in the verb phrase.
What is a disjunctive universal?
All languages have developed from one original language.
The theory of monogenesis (which is about the origin of all languages) says that:
The period during which children must be exposed to their first language to achieve
native fluency.
What is the "critical period for language acquisition?"
, Children still have access to their innate language learning system (LAD/UG), but adults do
not.
Why is it that children can create a Creole, but adults cannot?
The fact that in all languages syntactic transformations follow the principle of structure
dependence.
Which of the following does NOT provide crucial evidence for the critical period?
(1) Spontaneously, based on home sign systems (as in the case of Nicaraguan sign language),
(2) due to language split (leading to language families), and (3) due to language merger
(ie. pidginization and creolization)
In addition to constructing them as artificial languages (such as Esperanto or Dothraki)
there are at least three ways in which new languages can arise:
A language that is only used within a small population, that is overshadowed by a so-called
'killer language' which is used in educational systems, the government, and the media.
What do we mean by an endangered language?
Telegraphic stage
Which of the following is a stage of language acquistion?
When children are given explicit instructions or corrections, they tend to ignore them.
Why is explicit instruction by parents unlikely to help children in the process of first
language acquisition?
Language splitting and language families
The hunter-gatherer life style of our ancestors gave rise to:
If a property is present in all languages, then it must be the case that this property is part
of the innate capacity for language.
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
