UCLA LING 1 FINAL TEST PAPER
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A
PLUS
⩥ linguistic performance.
Answer: what actually comes out of your mouth
⩥ prescriptive grammar.
Answer: rules that the speaker must follow
⩥ descriptive grammar.
Answer: rules that speakers actually use
⩥ universal grammar.
Answer: principles that characterize all grammars
⩥ signed languages parameters.
Answer: - shape of hand
- place of articulation
- movement
- palm orientation
,- facial expressions
⩥ localization.
Answer: cognitive abilities are localized to specific parts of brain
⩥ dichotic listening.
Answer: - simultaneously play two distinct sounds into each ear
- report hearing only one sound, almost always the sound from the right
ear
- evidence for strong left hemisphere preference for auditory processing
⩥ split brain patients.
Answer: - visual stimulus presented in left visual field
- cannot give linguistic response but can correctly draw what was seen
⩥ wada test.
Answer: - anesthetize left hemisphere of brain
- patient asked to identify object in left hand
- cannot give linguistic response but can identify picture of object
⩥ aphasia.
Answer: disruption of language abilities due to brain injury
, ⩥ Broca's aphasia.
Answer: - speech is broken and halted (telegraphic)
- words make some sense, but structure incorrect
- agrammatic aphasia
- semantics okay, syntax not okay, comprehension mostly okay, writing
not okay
- leave many functional morphemes out of speech but includes lexical
morphemes
⩥ Wernicke's aphasia.
Answer: - speech fluent but doesn't make much sense
- grammar usually not affected
- problems with word choice and meaning
- semantic aphasia
- semantics not okay, syntax okay, comprehension not okay, writing not
okay
⩥ specific language impairment (SLI).
Answer: - children have normal IQ and normal ability in all other areas,
only linguistic ability and often only specific aspects of grammar are
impaired
- dissociation between intelligence and language ability
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A
PLUS
⩥ linguistic performance.
Answer: what actually comes out of your mouth
⩥ prescriptive grammar.
Answer: rules that the speaker must follow
⩥ descriptive grammar.
Answer: rules that speakers actually use
⩥ universal grammar.
Answer: principles that characterize all grammars
⩥ signed languages parameters.
Answer: - shape of hand
- place of articulation
- movement
- palm orientation
,- facial expressions
⩥ localization.
Answer: cognitive abilities are localized to specific parts of brain
⩥ dichotic listening.
Answer: - simultaneously play two distinct sounds into each ear
- report hearing only one sound, almost always the sound from the right
ear
- evidence for strong left hemisphere preference for auditory processing
⩥ split brain patients.
Answer: - visual stimulus presented in left visual field
- cannot give linguistic response but can correctly draw what was seen
⩥ wada test.
Answer: - anesthetize left hemisphere of brain
- patient asked to identify object in left hand
- cannot give linguistic response but can identify picture of object
⩥ aphasia.
Answer: disruption of language abilities due to brain injury
, ⩥ Broca's aphasia.
Answer: - speech is broken and halted (telegraphic)
- words make some sense, but structure incorrect
- agrammatic aphasia
- semantics okay, syntax not okay, comprehension mostly okay, writing
not okay
- leave many functional morphemes out of speech but includes lexical
morphemes
⩥ Wernicke's aphasia.
Answer: - speech fluent but doesn't make much sense
- grammar usually not affected
- problems with word choice and meaning
- semantic aphasia
- semantics not okay, syntax okay, comprehension not okay, writing not
okay
⩥ specific language impairment (SLI).
Answer: - children have normal IQ and normal ability in all other areas,
only linguistic ability and often only specific aspects of grammar are
impaired
- dissociation between intelligence and language ability
