Linguistics Quiz

1 ) In the sentence Marge made dinner for Homer and Bart watched television "Homer and Bart " forms a constituent

a ) True

2 ) The works of Ferdinand de Saussure were instrumental in founding Traditional Grammar

a ) True

3 ) What syntactic function do the words the and never both perform in the following sentence , in terms of the X-bar schema

The President never agrees with Congress

Modifiers

4 ) Draw a tree for the following sentence . Do not use triangles . You will need to create the tree in your word processing program

, or with phpSyntaxTree "The evil scientist invented a new kind of virus . IP

NP I

Det N ' I VP

The AP N -pst V

A ' scientist V NP Art N

A invented N AP

evil a kind A ' A PP new

' NP

N of virus

5 ) Infants can discriminate between sounds that are phonemic in other languages as well as those in their native language . For instance Japanese infants can easily distinguish between [r] and [l] while their parents have difficulty doing so

a ) True

6 ) Research into child language acquisition has established that children primarily acquire language by means of

a ) imitation

d ) reinforcement

7 ) A child producing sentences like I no drink milk is at the telegraphic stage of language development

b ) False

8 ) Explain the significance of the critical period to modern theories of language acquisition . Include examples in your answer

The critical period because the foundation for the development of modern theories of language acquisition...