nature of language

According to whom is Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols.

• Robins

• Hall

• Sapir

• Blosh & Trager

Chomsky suggested which of the following?

• there is an innate human ability to acquire language

• there is no fundamental ability for language when a child is born, and it is acquired through subsequent exposure to speech

• children acquire language in different ways and at different rates depending on the culture into which they are born

• children learn language as the product of positive reinforcement

Which of these is not a type of linguistics

• historical

• personal

• comparative

• synchronic

which of these terms refers to the study of speech sounds of a given language and their function within the sound system of that language

• Phonetics

• syntax

• phonology

• morphology

The concept of Universal Grammar embodies the idea that ______

• the child is born with an adult-like knowledge of grammar

• the child acquires Universal Grammar regardless of their native language

• certain aspects of grammar are universally acquired

• certain aspects of grammar are innate

Words that sound similar to the noises they describe are examples of

• larynx

• morphemes

• onomatopoeia

• divine source

In 1500 A.D. King James carried out a similar experiment to Psammetichus; children were reported to speak _.

• latin

• hebrew

• hindi

• larynx

According to_________, early humans may have developed a set of grunts, groans, and curses used when lifting, carrying, etc.

• social interaction source

• physical adaption source

• sounds heard in nature

• divine source

connection has been proposed between language, _, and right-handedness in the majority of humans.

• larynx

• tool-using

• Lips

• true

In this scenario, when different objects flew by, making a caw-caw or coo-coo sound, the early human tried to imitate the sounds and then used them to refer to those objects even when they weren't present.

• the pooh-pooh theory

• pooh-pooh theory

• bow-wow theory

• newborns today