CHAPTER 1&2 - INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

“Language is considered as a gift from God. It is believed that if human infants grow up isolated, they spontaneously begin using God-given language.”

• A.    The divine source

• B.     The natural source

• C.     The genetic source

• D.     The bow-wow theory

… includes the bow-wow and the pooh-pooh theories

• A.     The genetic source

• B.    The natural sound source

• C.     The genetic source

• D.   The social interaction source

According to the Social interaction source (the yo-he-yo theory) , language was created through the … effort in a social context.

• A.    Physical

• B. Communication

• C. Psychological

• D. Prayer

The physical adaptation source is based on physical features of human processes distinct from other creatures (particularly non-humans) that may have enabled speech production.

• A. The divine source

• B. The natural source

• C. The genetic source

• D.   The physical adaptation source

… suggests that the development of advanced tool-making skills and the use of tools played a crucial role in the evolution of human language.

• A.     The divine source

• B.     The natural source

• C.     The genetic source

• D.     The tool-making source

The ability to learn and use language is partly influenced by our genes, but it also depends on our surroundings and interactions with others.

• A. The divine source

• B.  The natural sound source

• C. The genetic source

• D. The social interaction source

Displacement, and productivity are two of five types of?

• A. Communication

• B. Properties of language

• C. Human language’s properties

• D. Human language

88. In human language, this property which human can refer to past and future time are called?

• A. Displacement

•  B. Reflexivity

• C. Arbitrator

• D. Informative signals

Arbitrariness is aspect of the relationship between objects and …… ?

• A. Linguistic signs

• B. Language signs

• C. Natural signs

• D. Subjective signs

10. Open-endedness is a property described as the ability to continually create….. and ….. utterances by manipulating human linguistic resources to describe new objects and simulations.

• A. New poem, novel

• B. New expressions, novel

• C. New language, linguistic

• D. New signal, imagine