Psycholinguistics 2

The goal of psychologists it to investigate:

• how the deep structure is reflected in the surface structure

• if language universals are psychologically real

• if generative grammar is psychologically real

• all of the above

The deep structure:

• reflects the syntactic structure of a sentence

• determines the phonetic form of a sentence

What are the components of grammar:

• phonology

• semantics

• syntaxt

• all of the above

Distinguishing grammatical form from ungrammatical ones is...

• a syntactic ability

• a phonological ability

• a syntactic rule

• a rule of sentence formation

What are syntactic rules?

• rules of sentence formation

• rules of word-formation

• phonotactic constaints

• there is no correct answer

What is linguistic competence according to Noam Chomsky?

• unconscious knowledge of grammar that allows a speaker to use a langauge

• the ability to use a foreign language

What is linguistic performance?

• the actual use of a language in a situation

• the innate biological system that allows one to acquire any language

What is the name of processes which change the deep structure into surface structure?

• transformations

• transportation

• transmutations

• translations

Identify a noun phrase:

• I was ill

• a well-known country

• in the vicinity of

• as well as

Identify a prepositional phrase:

• a big building

• of the great importance

• can smell the pizza

• will have been studying