LING 115 ALL QUIZZES WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Q1 Language is predominantly lateralized to the left hemisphere of the brain. This fact is
supported by the fact that: - Correct Answers -Brocas's and Wernicke' area of language
processing are located in the left hemisphere of the brain.
Q2 Social Intelligence Theory of the origin of language states that cognitive structure
that is responsible for social cohesiveness, social hierarchy present in other primates
co-opted (co-evolved) in human beings too. - Correct Answers -True
Q3 According to mentalists (Chomsky, Newmeyer, Bickerton et. al.), language is a
mental representation of our conceptual (thought) system. - Correct Answers -True
Q4 Comparative biology assumes that if a trait found in humans appears in closely
related non-human primates, then it was probably present in the last common ancestor
of these species. Is this statement true of human language? - Correct Answers -Not
True
Q5 ´Presence of language faculty in Homo Sapiens (Human ancestors) is relatively
recent (less than 150 kya). - Correct Answers -True
Q6 ´Primate calls are essentially innate whereas human language is culturally
transmitted. - Correct Answers -True
Q7 The animal communication system is an open-ended system. - Correct Answers -
False
Q8 Human language displays 'duality of patterning'. - Correct Answers -True
Q9´Neocortex region of the human brain (frontal cortex) is highly developed and larger
than other primates accommodating the verbal articulation (language) ability in the
human species. - Correct Answers -True
Q1 According to Pinker, the term 'grammar' refers to: - Correct Answers -a discrete
combinatorial system that facilitates generating infinite string of sentences.generating
Q2 The sentence "This is the cat that ate the rat that drank the malt that lay in the house
that Jack built..." illustrates the property of 'recursion' of the human language system. -
Correct Answers -True
, Q3 Children who have limitations in other cognitive faculties also exhibit linguistic
dysfunction. - Correct Answers -False
Q4 The sentence Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is nonsensical or meaningless.
Nonetheless, it is structurally a well-formed sentence. - Correct Answers -True
Q5 Word Chain Devise or "Markov" model is insufficient to explain the structural
relationship between words in sentences. - Correct Answers -True
Q6 The human language system depends on the probability principle. - Correct
Answers -False
Q7 Human language is structure-dependent. - Correct Answers -True
Q8 Representing human language hierarchically helps explain the non-adjacent
structural relationship between words locally. - Correct Answers -True
Q9 Hierarchical structure, as a universal property of human language and the specific
order in which heads and their arguments appear, is not determined on a language-
particular basis. - Correct Answers -False
Q10 What we think of as "parts of speech" are nothing more than grammatical category
labels. They simply tell us how that word may be used in the sentence, what positions in
the tree it may appear in, and what relation it may have to other parts of speech. -
Correct Answers -True
Q1 Language is predominantly lateralized to the left hemisphere of the brain. This fact is
supported by the fact that: ______ - Correct Answers -Brocas's and Wernicke' area of
language processing are located in the left hemisphere of the brain. _____
Q2 Corpus callosum is a nerve bundle that connects the right and the left hemisphere of
the brain. - Correct Answers -True
Q3 Mental dictionary is located in the Broca's region. - Correct Answers -False
Q4 A nerve bundle that connects Broca's and Wernicke's area is called: - Correct
Answers -Arcuate fasciculus
Q5 Wernicke's area collects words, construct sentences and sends that information to
the Broca's area. - Correct Answers -True
Q6 The following sample utterance signals which language disorder. Yes... ah...
Monday... ah... Dad and Peter Hogan, and Dad... ah... hospital... and ah...
Wednesday... Wednesday nine o'clock and ah Thursday... ten o'clock ah doctors...
two... two... an doctors and... ah... teeth... yah... And a doctor an girl... and gums, an I. -
Correct Answers -Broca's aphasia
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Q1 Language is predominantly lateralized to the left hemisphere of the brain. This fact is
supported by the fact that: - Correct Answers -Brocas's and Wernicke' area of language
processing are located in the left hemisphere of the brain.
Q2 Social Intelligence Theory of the origin of language states that cognitive structure
that is responsible for social cohesiveness, social hierarchy present in other primates
co-opted (co-evolved) in human beings too. - Correct Answers -True
Q3 According to mentalists (Chomsky, Newmeyer, Bickerton et. al.), language is a
mental representation of our conceptual (thought) system. - Correct Answers -True
Q4 Comparative biology assumes that if a trait found in humans appears in closely
related non-human primates, then it was probably present in the last common ancestor
of these species. Is this statement true of human language? - Correct Answers -Not
True
Q5 ´Presence of language faculty in Homo Sapiens (Human ancestors) is relatively
recent (less than 150 kya). - Correct Answers -True
Q6 ´Primate calls are essentially innate whereas human language is culturally
transmitted. - Correct Answers -True
Q7 The animal communication system is an open-ended system. - Correct Answers -
False
Q8 Human language displays 'duality of patterning'. - Correct Answers -True
Q9´Neocortex region of the human brain (frontal cortex) is highly developed and larger
than other primates accommodating the verbal articulation (language) ability in the
human species. - Correct Answers -True
Q1 According to Pinker, the term 'grammar' refers to: - Correct Answers -a discrete
combinatorial system that facilitates generating infinite string of sentences.generating
Q2 The sentence "This is the cat that ate the rat that drank the malt that lay in the house
that Jack built..." illustrates the property of 'recursion' of the human language system. -
Correct Answers -True
, Q3 Children who have limitations in other cognitive faculties also exhibit linguistic
dysfunction. - Correct Answers -False
Q4 The sentence Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is nonsensical or meaningless.
Nonetheless, it is structurally a well-formed sentence. - Correct Answers -True
Q5 Word Chain Devise or "Markov" model is insufficient to explain the structural
relationship between words in sentences. - Correct Answers -True
Q6 The human language system depends on the probability principle. - Correct
Answers -False
Q7 Human language is structure-dependent. - Correct Answers -True
Q8 Representing human language hierarchically helps explain the non-adjacent
structural relationship between words locally. - Correct Answers -True
Q9 Hierarchical structure, as a universal property of human language and the specific
order in which heads and their arguments appear, is not determined on a language-
particular basis. - Correct Answers -False
Q10 What we think of as "parts of speech" are nothing more than grammatical category
labels. They simply tell us how that word may be used in the sentence, what positions in
the tree it may appear in, and what relation it may have to other parts of speech. -
Correct Answers -True
Q1 Language is predominantly lateralized to the left hemisphere of the brain. This fact is
supported by the fact that: ______ - Correct Answers -Brocas's and Wernicke' area of
language processing are located in the left hemisphere of the brain. _____
Q2 Corpus callosum is a nerve bundle that connects the right and the left hemisphere of
the brain. - Correct Answers -True
Q3 Mental dictionary is located in the Broca's region. - Correct Answers -False
Q4 A nerve bundle that connects Broca's and Wernicke's area is called: - Correct
Answers -Arcuate fasciculus
Q5 Wernicke's area collects words, construct sentences and sends that information to
the Broca's area. - Correct Answers -True
Q6 The following sample utterance signals which language disorder. Yes... ah...
Monday... ah... Dad and Peter Hogan, and Dad... ah... hospital... and ah...
Wednesday... Wednesday nine o'clock and ah Thursday... ten o'clock ah doctors...
two... two... an doctors and... ah... teeth... yah... And a doctor an girl... and gums, an I. -
Correct Answers -Broca's aphasia
