LING222 UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Our knowledge of language is... - CORRECT ANSWER- abstract: words, syllables,
stress are not physically definable.
unconscious: speakers of pintupi are not aware of the stress rule.
rule-governed: stress is computed according to explicit rules th...
LING222 UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Our knowledge of language is... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- abstract: words, syllables,
stress are not physically definable.
unconscious: speakers of pintupi are not aware of the stress rule.
rule-governed: stress is computed according to explicit rules that apply to abstract categories
like syllables.
Hoffman-visual grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- hawk and goose illusion, triangle etc.
Bregman-auditory grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Two types of construction of
auditory experiences
-spectral integration and segregation within a temporal window.
-sequential integration and segregation.
Jackendoff-Innate and generative grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Three fundamental arguments - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Internalism
Nativism
Constructivism
Equivalence class - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- nouns is itself an abstraction from
equivalence classes abstracted from sets of tokens of individual nouns.
, I-Language - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- aspects of Individuals, Internal and Intensional.
Intensional: there's a rule or pattern, not a list.
real aspects of the world (fields, cells etc.)
E-Language - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An attempt at a scientific approach.
-The language is taken to be a corpus of actual or potential utterances. The grammar is a
formal description of this corpus.
-There can be no question of truth-one grammar description is as valid as another if they are
extensionally equivalent.
P(latonic) language concept - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a platonic ideal that exists
independent of actual speakers. In the case of P-English there may be words of P-English that
we've never heard/said (new words).
Anti-empiricist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Do you start with theories and build
observation.
Rationalist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Do you start with observations and build theories
The masking effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Two identical tones interrupted by a silence
are perceived as two streams.
-If we replace the silence with white noise which is sufficiently loud, the tone is perceived as
continuing behind the white noise.
Socio-Political concept - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -defined by national boarders, ethnic
affiliation, history.
eg. Serbo-Croatian, Hindi-urdu, Bulgarian-Macedonian use both/different languages
depending on boarders/location.
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