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Question 1:

What are symbols used to indicate the correct pronunciation of letters in particular words referred to as?
a) Diacritical marks
b) Phonological indicators
c) Grammatical transformations
d) Surface structures

Question 2:

Which of the following terms is used to describe the rules that define the way symbols can be rewritten as other symbols?
a) Grammar
b) Phase structure
c) Semantic
d) Phonological

Question 3:

When we understand a sentence, we transform a surface structure into which of the following?
a) A deep structure
b) An underlying structure
c) Syntax
d) Grammatical structure

Question 4:

The acquisition of a particular language involves which of the following?
a) Minimalism
b) Parameter setting
c) Language acquisition device
d) Deep structure

Question 5:

Chomsky et al. suggest that the faculty of language contains three parts. Which of the following is not one of them?
a) Computational system
b) Sensory-motor system
c) Conceptual-intentional system
d) Uniquely human system

Question 6:

A grammatical utterance must be semantically correct and meaningful.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

Exposing children to complex speech can be beneficial.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

More recent accounts of language acquisition focus even more deeply on innate capabilities and less on the possibility of learning.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

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

Question 10:

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.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 9