1 TL | Linguistic Competence and Performance Quiz

What does the term "Orthography" refer to?

• Spelling of words

• Grammar rules

• Pronunciation rules

• Word meanings

Which words specify grammatical relations and have little semantic content?

• Function words

• Content words

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

Which hypothesis suggests that language determines how we perceive and think about the world?

• Linguistic determinism

• Linguistic relativism

• Universal grammar

• Inflectional morpheme

What is the term for a period during which a child can acquire language easily and rapidly?

• Critical period

• Linguistic determinism

• Mental lexicon

• Circumfixes

What is the hypothesis that different languages encode different categories?

• Linguistic competence

• Linguistic performance

• Linguistic determinism

• Linguistic relativism

Which type of words denote concepts and have semantic content?

• Function words

• Content words

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

Whose theory proposed the idea of Universal Grammar?

• Steven Pinker

• Noam Chomsky

• Edward Sapir

• Benjamin Lee Whorf

Which term refers to our knowledge of words and grammar?

• Linguistic competence

• Descriptive grammar

• Onomatopoeic

• Gloss

What type of morphemes need to be attached to other words to form a word?

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

• Circumfixes

• Infixes

What are the unconscious rules responsible for linguistic creativity?

• Linguistic competence

• Linguistic performance

• Grammar

• Descriptive grammar