Intro Session 1

What is linguistics?

• The scientific study of human language.

• A subdiscipline in literary studies.

• A subdiscipline in psycholinguistics.

• The study of human communication.

Which of the following is not part of core grammar?

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Morphology

• Phonology

• Sociolinguistics

Which of the following applies to language acquisition?

• Language acquisition is based on imitation.

• Language acquisition has to deal with messy data.

• Language acquisition is based on negative evidence.

• Language acquisition is not informed by explicit error correction.

The mental representation of a native speaker's grammar of a language is

• a descriptive grammar

• a prescriptive grammar

• a model of the speaker's competence

• a model of the native speaker's performance

Which of the following is correct:

• Language is infinite.

• Language is recursive.

• Language is inconsistent.

• Language is relative.