Unit 5, Module 36: Cognition Assesment

what is one is NOT one of the main components of language?

• Phonemes

• Morphemes

• Grammar

• reading

Linguist Noam Chomsky has proposed that humans are biologically predisposed to learn the grammar rules of language. He calls this trait _____ _____.

at what age do babies START to speak in single words?

• about 4 months of age

• 6 months of age

• 10 months of age

• 12 months of age

a region of the left frontal lobe controls language expression, and Wernicke’s area, a region in the left temporal lobe controls language reception.

• True

• False

language defines thought, but it would be more accurate to say that language influences thought. what is this concept called?

• universal grammar.

• linguistic influence

• Morphemes

• specific linguistic subtasks

It is generally believed that language is ___.

• displaced.

• culturally transmitted.

• uniquely human.

• not universal.