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9. The fact that many new words are added to English each year demonstrates that English,
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like any language, is an open system. Answer: T
Chapter 1: The Nature of Communication
True/False Questions
10. Birds and bees generally learn most of their communication systems from other members
of their social groups. Answer: F
1. Linguistic competence refers to the subconscious knowledge of one’s language. Answer:
T
11. The terms language and communication can be used interchangeably because they mean
the same thing. Answer: F
2. Language is dependent on hearing or speech. Answer: F
12. One difference between apes’ use of sign “language” and a human’s use of language, is
3. In Chapter 1, we discuss various types of animal communication because comparison of
that apes seldom initiate communication whereas humans, including young children, frequently
those systems of communication can aid us in understanding human communication.
initiate communication with others. Answer: T
Answer: T
13. Humans communicate in both verbal and nonverbal ways. Answer: T
4. All animals have a language. Answer: F
14. Redundancy in a message helps overcome “static”. Answer: T
5. Bird calls tend to be species specific. Answer: F
15. Bird songs are generally more elaborate than birdcalls. Answer: T
6. Bird songs tend to be species specific. Answer: T
16. The characteristic of languages that allow people to coin new words as needed is called
7. All researchers now agree that apes can learn language. Answer: F
discreteness. Answer: F
8. A person who stutters has a problem with linguistic competence. Answer: F
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17. Linguistic forms, such as words or sentences, have an arbitrary relationship to their
meaning. Answer: T 24. Broca’s area of the brain controls the larynx, lips, tongue, and other areas of the digestive
and respiratory systems involved with oral and facial fine motor skills in the production of
18. Compared to nonhuman communication, human linguistic communication tends to be language. Answer: T
stimulus-bound. Answer: F
25. Broca’s area of the brain is the main areas of the brain involved in the comprehension of
19. The fact that a person can talk about the past or anticipate the future illustrates the speech and the selection of lexical items. Answer. F.
characteristic of language called displacement. Answer: T
26. Marc Hauser, W. Tecumseh Fitch, and Noam Chomsky believe that many nonhumans
20. Some researchers believe that Kanzi processes a basic understanding of simple grammar. share with humans what they call the faculty of language in the narrow sense (FLN). Answer: F
Answer: T
27. Recursion is the process whereby any linguistics unit can be made longer by embedding
21. Alex the parrot, as well as the apes that have been used in language experiments, have another unit in it. Answer: T
been able to learn language at the level of about a five-year-old human.
Answer: F 28. The concept of Theory of the Mind refers to a person’s ability to know exactly what other
people are thinking. Answer: F
Multiple Choice Questions
22. Culture shock occurs when a person interacts with a person or people from a foreign
culture and disorientation and anxiety occurs when social expectations are not met because of a 29. Communication always includes the transmission of
lack of knowledge of the norms of the other’s culture. Answer: T a. Ideas.
b. Thoughts.
23. Ethnocentrism is the act of judging other cultures by the standards of that culture and not c. Emotions.
by the standards of one’s own culture. Answer: F d. Information.
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Answer: a
Answer: d
32. Stuttering would be a problem with
30. Although there might be universal aspects of all languages that are innate, specific a. Linguistic competence.
languages are b. Linguistic performance.
a. Also strictly innate. c. Linguistic patterns.
b. Mostly innate. d. Linguistic systematics.
c. Learned.
Answer: b
d. Innate if they are a first language and learned if they are a second language.
33. King George VI, actress Marilyn Monroe, and Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of
Answer: c the United Kingdom during World War II and again from 1951 to 1955) as well as many other
famous people were stutterers. Stuttering is a problem with:
a. The tongue being too thick.
31. The mostly subconscious knowledge of the grammar and lexicon of one’s language is b. The subconscious knowledge of the language (linguistic competence).
called c. The ability to deliver linguistic competence; that is, a problem of linguistic performance.
a. Linguistic competence. d. Wernicke’s area of the brain.
b. Linguistic performance.
c. Linguistic patterns.
d. Linguistic systematics. Answer: c
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Test Bank for A Concise Introduction to Linguistics, 6th edition by
9. The fact that many new words are added to English each year demonstrates that English,
Bruce Rowe, Diane Levine (All Chapters) A+
like any language, is an open system. Answer: T
Chapter 1: The Nature of Communication
True/False Questions
10. Birds and bees generally learn most of their communication systems from other members
of their social groups. Answer: F
1. Linguistic competence refers to the subconscious knowledge of one’s language. Answer:
T
11. The terms language and communication can be used interchangeably because they mean
the same thing. Answer: F
2. Language is dependent on hearing or speech. Answer: F
12. One difference between apes’ use of sign “language” and a human’s use of language, is
3. In Chapter 1, we discuss various types of animal communication because comparison of
that apes seldom initiate communication whereas humans, including young children, frequently
those systems of communication can aid us in understanding human communication.
initiate communication with others. Answer: T
Answer: T
13. Humans communicate in both verbal and nonverbal ways. Answer: T
4. All animals have a language. Answer: F
14. Redundancy in a message helps overcome “static”. Answer: T
5. Bird calls tend to be species specific. Answer: F
15. Bird songs are generally more elaborate than birdcalls. Answer: T
6. Bird songs tend to be species specific. Answer: T
16. The characteristic of languages that allow people to coin new words as needed is called
7. All researchers now agree that apes can learn language. Answer: F
discreteness. Answer: F
8. A person who stutters has a problem with linguistic competence. Answer: F
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17. Linguistic forms, such as words or sentences, have an arbitrary relationship to their
meaning. Answer: T 24. Broca’s area of the brain controls the larynx, lips, tongue, and other areas of the digestive
and respiratory systems involved with oral and facial fine motor skills in the production of
18. Compared to nonhuman communication, human linguistic communication tends to be language. Answer: T
stimulus-bound. Answer: F
25. Broca’s area of the brain is the main areas of the brain involved in the comprehension of
19. The fact that a person can talk about the past or anticipate the future illustrates the speech and the selection of lexical items. Answer. F.
characteristic of language called displacement. Answer: T
26. Marc Hauser, W. Tecumseh Fitch, and Noam Chomsky believe that many nonhumans
20. Some researchers believe that Kanzi processes a basic understanding of simple grammar. share with humans what they call the faculty of language in the narrow sense (FLN). Answer: F
Answer: T
27. Recursion is the process whereby any linguistics unit can be made longer by embedding
21. Alex the parrot, as well as the apes that have been used in language experiments, have another unit in it. Answer: T
been able to learn language at the level of about a five-year-old human.
Answer: F 28. The concept of Theory of the Mind refers to a person’s ability to know exactly what other
people are thinking. Answer: F
Multiple Choice Questions
22. Culture shock occurs when a person interacts with a person or people from a foreign
culture and disorientation and anxiety occurs when social expectations are not met because of a 29. Communication always includes the transmission of
lack of knowledge of the norms of the other’s culture. Answer: T a. Ideas.
b. Thoughts.
23. Ethnocentrism is the act of judging other cultures by the standards of that culture and not c. Emotions.
by the standards of one’s own culture. Answer: F d. Information.
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Answer: a
Answer: d
32. Stuttering would be a problem with
30. Although there might be universal aspects of all languages that are innate, specific a. Linguistic competence.
languages are b. Linguistic performance.
a. Also strictly innate. c. Linguistic patterns.
b. Mostly innate. d. Linguistic systematics.
c. Learned.
Answer: b
d. Innate if they are a first language and learned if they are a second language.
33. King George VI, actress Marilyn Monroe, and Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of
Answer: c the United Kingdom during World War II and again from 1951 to 1955) as well as many other
famous people were stutterers. Stuttering is a problem with:
a. The tongue being too thick.
31. The mostly subconscious knowledge of the grammar and lexicon of one’s language is b. The subconscious knowledge of the language (linguistic competence).
called c. The ability to deliver linguistic competence; that is, a problem of linguistic performance.
a. Linguistic competence. d. Wernicke’s area of the brain.
b. Linguistic performance.
c. Linguistic patterns.
d. Linguistic systematics. Answer: c
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