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LING 115 All QuizzesQ1 Language is predominantly lateralized to the left hemisphere of the brain.
This fact is supported by the fact that: - correct answer ✔Brocas's and
Wernicke' area of language processing are located in the left hemisphere of
the brain.
Q2 Social Intelligence Theory of the origin of language states that cognitive
structure that is responsible for social cohesiveness, social hierarchy present
in other primates co-opted (co-evolved) in human beings too. - correct
answer ✔True
Q3 According to mentalists (Chomsky, Newmeyer, Bickerton et. al.), language
is a mental representation of our conceptual (thought) system. - correct
answer ✔True
Q4 Comparative biology assumes that if a trait found in humans appears in
closely related non-human primates, then it was probably present in the last
common ancestor of these species. Is this statement true of human
language? - correct answer ✔Not True
Q5 ´Presence of language faculty in Homo Sapiens (Human ancestors) is
relatively recent (less than 150 kya). - correct answer ✔True
Q6 ´Primate calls are essentially innate whereas human language is culturally
transmitted. - correct answer ✔True
Q7 The animal communication system is an open-ended system. - correct
answer ✔False
, Q8 Human language displays 'duality of patterning'. - correct answer ✔True
Q9´Neocortex region of the human brain (frontal cortex) is highly developed
and larger than other primates accommodating the verbal articulation
(language) ability in the human species. - correct answer ✔True
Q1 According to Pinker, the term 'grammar' refers to: - correct answer ✔a
discrete combinatorial system that facilitates generating infinite string of
sentences.generating
Q2 The sentence "This is the cat that ate the rat that drank the malt that lay in
the house that Jack built..." illustrates the property of 'recursion' of the human
language system. - correct answer ✔True
Q3 Children who have limitations in other cognitive faculties also exhibit
linguistic dysfunction. - correct answer ✔False
Q4 The sentence Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is nonsensical or
meaningless. Nonetheless, it is structurally a well-formed sentence. - correct
answer ✔True
Q5 Word Chain Devise or "Markov" model is insufficient to explain the
structural relationship between words in sentences. - correct answer ✔True
Q6 The human language system depends on the probability principle. -
correct answer ✔False
Q7 Human language is structure-dependent. - correct answer ✔True
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