3120 Chapter 2 Review Questions And
Correct Verified Answers (Graded A+).
Wherever there are humans, there is language. This universal characteristic of human language
could reflect ___. - Answer both the universal availability of models to learn from and the
universal ability to learn language
Russenorsk, which arose when Russian and Norwegian fishermen needed to communicatewith
each other, is an example of __________. - Answer pidgins
Creoles that arose independently in different places nonetheless have similar grammatical
features that are universal characteristics of human languages. This observation has led to the
hypothesis that _____. - Answer the human mind tends to construct only certain kinds of
languages
Ann Senghas studied the changes that occurred during the development of Nicaraguan Sign
language. She found that the language moved from a structurally simple language to a
structurally more complex language and that the differences in structural complexity appeared
primarily in ___________. - Answer the signing of those who began to learn the language at
an early age.
According to the language bioprogram hypothesis (Bickerton, 1981), ___________. - Answer
an innate skeletal grammar guides and constrains the process of language acquisition & creation
As a result of _________________, the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
and information coming into sense receptors (e.g., the ears, the skin) on the right side of the
body goes directly to the left cerebralHemisphere. - Answer contralateral connections
In a dichotic listening test, two different stimuli are presented simultaneously, one to each
ear,and the listener is asked to report what was presented. Because the dominant neural
connectionsare contralateral, information from the right ear reaches the left hemisphere before
informationfrom the left ear does and vice versa. (The information presented to the left ear
goes first to theright hemisphere and then must cross through the corpus callosum to reach the
left hemisphereand vice versa.) Thus, if the listener reports hearing the stimulus presented to
the right ear, theresearcher infers that _______________ is responsible for processing that
stimulus. - Answer the left hemisphere
Correct Verified Answers (Graded A+).
Wherever there are humans, there is language. This universal characteristic of human language
could reflect ___. - Answer both the universal availability of models to learn from and the
universal ability to learn language
Russenorsk, which arose when Russian and Norwegian fishermen needed to communicatewith
each other, is an example of __________. - Answer pidgins
Creoles that arose independently in different places nonetheless have similar grammatical
features that are universal characteristics of human languages. This observation has led to the
hypothesis that _____. - Answer the human mind tends to construct only certain kinds of
languages
Ann Senghas studied the changes that occurred during the development of Nicaraguan Sign
language. She found that the language moved from a structurally simple language to a
structurally more complex language and that the differences in structural complexity appeared
primarily in ___________. - Answer the signing of those who began to learn the language at
an early age.
According to the language bioprogram hypothesis (Bickerton, 1981), ___________. - Answer
an innate skeletal grammar guides and constrains the process of language acquisition & creation
As a result of _________________, the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
and information coming into sense receptors (e.g., the ears, the skin) on the right side of the
body goes directly to the left cerebralHemisphere. - Answer contralateral connections
In a dichotic listening test, two different stimuli are presented simultaneously, one to each
ear,and the listener is asked to report what was presented. Because the dominant neural
connectionsare contralateral, information from the right ear reaches the left hemisphere before
informationfrom the left ear does and vice versa. (The information presented to the left ear
goes first to theright hemisphere and then must cross through the corpus callosum to reach the
left hemisphereand vice versa.) Thus, if the listener reports hearing the stimulus presented to
the right ear, theresearcher infers that _______________ is responsible for processing that
stimulus. - Answer the left hemisphere
