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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
Q8 Representing human language hierarchically helps explain the non-adjacent structural relationship
between words locally. - correct answer ✔✔True
Q9 Hierarchical structure, as a universal property of human language and the specific order in which
heads and their arguments appear, is not determined on a language-particular basis. - correct answer
✔✔False
Q10 What we think of as "parts of speech" are nothing more than grammatical category labels. They
simply tell us how that word may be used in the sentence, what positions in the tree it may appear in,
and what relation it may have to other parts of speech. - correct answer ✔✔True
Q1 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. _____
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