Chapter 9 Practice Quizzes

Language
. Symbols used to indicate the correct pronunciation of letters in particular words are referred to as ______.

. Why is speech only a small subset of language?

. Which of the following terms is used to describe the rules that define the way symbols can be rewritten as other symbols?

. According to Chomsky, humans have a largely innate language structure. What is this called?

. When we understand a sentence, we transform a surface structure into ______.

. The belief that the speech that a child is exposed to is not enough for a child to abstract the structure of language is evidence for ______.

. The acquisition of a particular language involves ______.

. "The small animal that lived on the farm that was important for grain that was used to feed the town's people who had emigrated from a small town in Wales where the mining industry… etc." is a sentence that embeds sentences within sentences. It is called ______.

. Chomsky et al. suggest that the faculty of language contains three parts. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

. Which of the following terms describes neurons that fire not only when performing an action, but also when viewing the same action?

. Producing the sounds of a language is known as ______.

. The smallest unit in a language is ______.

. The approximate number of phonemes in the English language is ______, whereas Spanish has ______ phonemes.

. What, according to Chomsky, is the problem with finite state grammars?

. Brown and Hanlon (1970) provided evidence that supported ______.

. What did Huttenlocher et al. (2002) note in studying syntactic development in children?

. Which of the following is NOT one of Grices's conversational maxims?

. What is the condition that results in the inability to read letter by letter is called?

. In the sentence "I went to watch the crane" the word "crane" is an example of ______.

. Which of the following is NOT one of the three pairs of antagonistic colours in Hering's opponent process theory?

. A grammatical utterance must be semantically correct and meaningful.

. Exposing children to complex speech can be beneficial.

. More recent accounts of language acquisition focus even more deeply on innate capabilities and less on the possibility of learning.

. Someone who goes on and on about a needless point is probably violating the maxim of quantity.

. One reason that humanities teachers have more hesitation pauses than science teachers could be due to words in the humanities having more synonyms than words in the sciences.

. All morphemes are words.

. Infants have the capacity to learn the phonemes from all languages.

. Metaphor and irony are examples of figurative speech.

. Exposure to printed materials is related to the cognitive skills of verbal fluency and vocabulary.

. When we produce a sentence, we proceed from surface structure to deep structure.

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