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Ling 1 Final UCLA UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
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1. syntax how phrases and sentences are constructed
2. constituents units words are grouped into
3. words are NOT beads on a string
4. word order in subject-verb-object SVO
English
5. all languages syntactic categories (all have N, V but not necessarily Adj, Adv, Prep, Articles, etc.)
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6. noun person, place, or thing
7. verb action word
8. preposition shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence
9. adjective describes a noun
10. adverb describes a verb
11. auxiliary have, had, be, was, etc.
12. modal can, may, will, might, could, etc.
13. determiner a, the, those, etc.
14. subject-auxiliary movement of an auxiliary verb to sentence-initial position (preceding the subject)
inversion to form a question, ex: "has he eaten?"
15. multiple auxiliary only the first auxiliary after the subject inverts with the subject, ex: "the little rabbit
inversion has eaten" becomes "has the little rabbit eaten?"
16. true, only needs to pass one test to be a constituent
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Ling 1 Final UCLA UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
true or false: you
should try every
constituency test
on a string to de-
termine if it's a
constituent
17. pronoun replace- determines NP, when a group of words can be replaced by a pronoun and be
ment test grammatical and have the same meaning
18. "do so/do too" re- determines VP, if a string can be replaced by "do so/do too" (ex: did he go to
placement test school? yes, he did so)
19. stand alone test if a group of words can stand alone in a response to a question, it is a constituent
(ex: the girl ran in the rain. who ran in the rain? the girl)
20. movement tests fronting, clefting
21. fronting moving a group of words to the front of a sentence (ex: the girl ran in the rain vs.
in the rain, the girl ran)
22. clefting break up the sentence and feed it into "It is/was that " (ex: it was in the
rain that the girl ran, it was the girl that ran in the rain)
23. syntactic tree a visual representation of constituency and phrase structure rules
24. minimum PS rule N+V
in English?
25. sentence PS rule S -> NP VP
26. noun phrase (Det) (Adj) N (PP), interchangeable within a sentence
27. verb phrase V (NP) (PP) (Adv), interchangeable
Ling 1 Final UCLA UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
1. syntax how phrases and sentences are constructed
2. constituents units words are grouped into
3. words are NOT beads on a string
4. word order in subject-verb-object SVO
English
5. all languages syntactic categories (all have N, V but not necessarily Adj, Adv, Prep, Articles, etc.)
share...
6. noun person, place, or thing
7. verb action word
8. preposition shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence
9. adjective describes a noun
10. adverb describes a verb
11. auxiliary have, had, be, was, etc.
12. modal can, may, will, might, could, etc.
13. determiner a, the, those, etc.
14. subject-auxiliary movement of an auxiliary verb to sentence-initial position (preceding the subject)
inversion to form a question, ex: "has he eaten?"
15. multiple auxiliary only the first auxiliary after the subject inverts with the subject, ex: "the little rabbit
inversion has eaten" becomes "has the little rabbit eaten?"
16. true, only needs to pass one test to be a constituent
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Ling 1 Final UCLA UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
true or false: you
should try every
constituency test
on a string to de-
termine if it's a
constituent
17. pronoun replace- determines NP, when a group of words can be replaced by a pronoun and be
ment test grammatical and have the same meaning
18. "do so/do too" re- determines VP, if a string can be replaced by "do so/do too" (ex: did he go to
placement test school? yes, he did so)
19. stand alone test if a group of words can stand alone in a response to a question, it is a constituent
(ex: the girl ran in the rain. who ran in the rain? the girl)
20. movement tests fronting, clefting
21. fronting moving a group of words to the front of a sentence (ex: the girl ran in the rain vs.
in the rain, the girl ran)
22. clefting break up the sentence and feed it into "It is/was that " (ex: it was in the
rain that the girl ran, it was the girl that ran in the rain)
23. syntactic tree a visual representation of constituency and phrase structure rules
24. minimum PS rule N+V
in English?
25. sentence PS rule S -> NP VP
26. noun phrase (Det) (Adj) N (PP), interchangeable within a sentence
27. verb phrase V (NP) (PP) (Adv), interchangeable
