SLA Quiz

The first person who introduced the term "marked":

• Geoffrey Leech

• Nikolai Trubetzkoy

• Paul V. De Lacy

Markedness is pretty old in Linguistics and there is almost nothing to discover.

• True

• False

What is markedness?

Where there is a contrast between two or more members of a category such as a number, case, or tense, one of them is called .... (?) if it contains some extra affix

When were the terms "marked" and "unmarked" introduced the first time?

• 1951

• 1941

• 1931

Another term for "Transferability" is ...

• psychotherapy

• psychology

• psychotypology

Eric Kellerman organised his study among different age groups in ...

• 1979-1980

• 1979

• 1983

Advanced level students showed the best result in the Kellerman's study.

• True

• False

Which statement is true?

• Kellerman used transitive and intransitive verb forms in his study

• He used irregular and regular verbs in his study

• Both answers are true

Please write an example for "break" study