LING 1010 TEST QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the topmost node of a tree diagram called?
The root
What is the best definition of language according to linguists?
Language is the knowledge that allows you to construct meaningful expressions
Which rule explains why we interpret the phrase "clown class" as a type of class and not a
type of clown?
The Right Hand Rule
Which type of experiment does the empirical study on the Highlanders of Papua New Guinea
involve?
An experiment of nature
Which of the following is believed to be true in MODERN Nativism?
Experience determines the specific grammatical 'settings' of your native language
Native speakers of English usually judge a sentence like (i) as acceptable and (ii) as
unacceptable.
(i) Who do you wanna play in theatre?
(ii) *Who do you wanna play Romeo in the theatre?
What do the judgments above suggest about native speaker's knowledge of language?
Speakers' linguistic competence includes rules that they might not be able to explain only by
introspection.
, The fact that people regularly produce and understand grammatical sentences they have
never heard or produced before is evidence in favor of what point of view on knowledge?
Nativism
The Empiricist view would predict that:
Different children would go through different stages during language acquisition
Which of the following presents a problem for solely using corpora to study linguistic
competence?
The absence of a linguistic expression from corpora might be accidental
Williams Syndrome and SLI form an important pair of disorders in the study of the biological
basis of language because they demonstrate that:
There is a double dissociation between language and intelligence.
What type of linguistic rule makes the number of grammatical expressions in a language
infinite rather than just very large?
Recursive rules
Anna lives in Italy, where she moved as a child, and learned to speak Italian before she was
five. Bobby learned Italian in high school, and can hold fluent conversations. Carlo was born
in Italy, but moved to the U.S. and learned English. He learned Italian only as an adult, to
reconnect with his family. Which person is MOST LIKELY a native speaker of Italian?
Anne
What does Behaviorism have to say about language acquisition?
This development of Empiricism suggests that we should focus on the responses to a stimulus
to study language learning.
Which of the following claims is supported by the study on the Highlanders of Papua New
Guinea?
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the topmost node of a tree diagram called?
The root
What is the best definition of language according to linguists?
Language is the knowledge that allows you to construct meaningful expressions
Which rule explains why we interpret the phrase "clown class" as a type of class and not a
type of clown?
The Right Hand Rule
Which type of experiment does the empirical study on the Highlanders of Papua New Guinea
involve?
An experiment of nature
Which of the following is believed to be true in MODERN Nativism?
Experience determines the specific grammatical 'settings' of your native language
Native speakers of English usually judge a sentence like (i) as acceptable and (ii) as
unacceptable.
(i) Who do you wanna play in theatre?
(ii) *Who do you wanna play Romeo in the theatre?
What do the judgments above suggest about native speaker's knowledge of language?
Speakers' linguistic competence includes rules that they might not be able to explain only by
introspection.
, The fact that people regularly produce and understand grammatical sentences they have
never heard or produced before is evidence in favor of what point of view on knowledge?
Nativism
The Empiricist view would predict that:
Different children would go through different stages during language acquisition
Which of the following presents a problem for solely using corpora to study linguistic
competence?
The absence of a linguistic expression from corpora might be accidental
Williams Syndrome and SLI form an important pair of disorders in the study of the biological
basis of language because they demonstrate that:
There is a double dissociation between language and intelligence.
What type of linguistic rule makes the number of grammatical expressions in a language
infinite rather than just very large?
Recursive rules
Anna lives in Italy, where she moved as a child, and learned to speak Italian before she was
five. Bobby learned Italian in high school, and can hold fluent conversations. Carlo was born
in Italy, but moved to the U.S. and learned English. He learned Italian only as an adult, to
reconnect with his family. Which person is MOST LIKELY a native speaker of Italian?
Anne
What does Behaviorism have to say about language acquisition?
This development of Empiricism suggests that we should focus on the responses to a stimulus
to study language learning.
Which of the following claims is supported by the study on the Highlanders of Papua New
Guinea?
