pragm-lg acquisit

Making your conversational contribution such as is required is the rule of:

• the co-operative principle

• cohension

• coherence

• speech act theory

Which Gricean maxim is flouted in the conversation:

-"How do you like your sandwich?"

-"Oh, a sandwich is a sandwich"

• quantity

• quality

• relevance/relation

• manner

A variety of language which differs according to the social status of the speaker is:

• register

• standard variety

• sociolect

• jargon

A situation in which two languages or forms of a language are used under different conditions in a community:

• pidgin

• diglossia

• creole

• argot

The view that specific aspects of language ability can be identified with specific locations in the brain is known as:

• tongue tips

• dichotic listening

• aphasia

• localization view

Wernicke's area is also known as:

• the posterior speech cortex

• the anterior speech cortex

• the motor cortex

• the arcuate fasciculus

Language acquisition depends on:

• exposure to language

• cultural transmission

• reception and production of speech

• all of the above

In language acquisition the ability to organise message effectively and to compensate for difficulties is:

• strategic competence

• communicative competence

• grammatical competence

• sociolinguistic competence

Words that cannot be interpreted unless the physical context is known, e.g. "here, there, come, go, yesterday" are known as:

• reference

• inference

• deixis/deictic expressions

• entailment

In the sentence "Can I look at your Chomsky?", "Chomsky" is:

• reference

• context

• deixis

• anaphora