Quiz 1 - Answers
+ indicates correct response
- indicates incorrect response
1. There are two basic subcomponents within the language processor of humans that allow for message construction. These two components are:
-input and output
+words and combinatorial rules
-speech and writing
-gesture and combinatorial rules
2. The Modular Theory of language acquisition states that:
-The brain has no specialized language components at birth, but develops a language processor by learning language from parents.
-The brain has a specialized language component at birth that is so highly dependent on cognition that the two cannot function independently.
-The brain has no specialized language component at birth, but soon develops a language processor that is distinct from the cognition processor.
+The brain has a specialized language component at birth that obtains important information relating to language from the environment.
3. The Single Processor view of language acquisition states that:
+Language and cognition are so dependent on one another that they cannot function separately.
-Language and cognition are dependent of one another and language can occur without cognition.
-Language and cognition are independent of one another, but they do sometimes interact.
-Language and cognition are completely independent of one another.
4. Which of the following statements regarding science is FALSE?
-Through the scientific method the least uncertain answers to specific questions are sought after.
-Questions about the natural world can be answered through a logical systematic system known as science.
-In this class, we are studying the process of evolution as a means of language acquisition because the scientific method can be directly applied to this theory.
+Through the scientific method the most uncertain answers to specific questions are sought after.
5. How do the communication systems that mimic human languages that have been taught to animals differ from real human languages?
-There is no difference between the two; both animals and humans use language to communicate their basic needs and wants.
-The only difference is that animals are limited to gestural language, whereas humans most commonly use oral language.
+Sequencing of words in animal communications is based on a flat structure which is different from the two-dimensional vertical structure of human languages.
-Human languages express more interesting information.
6. What rule most completely describes the process of making yes/no questions in English?
+Move the highest auxiliary of the main clause.
-Move the first auxiliary in the sentence.
-Move any of the auxiliaries in the sentence.
-Move the second auxiliary in the sentence.