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WorksheetsDescriptive Linguistic
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
Identify the semantic roles of the following sentence:
The doctor put a new computer into his home office
doctor=patient, computer= agent, his=possesor, into his home office=goal
doctor=agent, computer=patient, his=possesor, into his home office=goal
doctor=possesor, computer=agent, his=possesor, into his home office=goal
doctor=agent, computer=agent, his=possesor, into his home office=goal
Identify the semantic roles of the following sentence:
The food will be brought by car to the party by some friends of the host.
food= patient, by car= instrument, to the party= goal, some friends= agent, of the host= possesor
food= theme, by car= patient, some friends of the host= agent, to the party= goal
food=agent, by car= patient, some friends of the host= goal, to the party= agent
food= patient, by car= theme, some friends of the host= agent, to the party= goal
Identify the semantic roles of the following sentence:
The friends traveled from France to Spain to take their Spanish class.
friends= patient, France= goal, Spain= source, their= possesor, Spanish class= goal
friends=agent, France= source, Spain= goal, their= possesor, Spanish class= goal
friends= goal, France= agent, Spain= patient, their= possesor, Spanish class= goal
friends= agent, France= source, Spain= goal, their= possesor, Spanish class= goal
A collocation is two or more words that
often go together
must be used together
have similar meanings
have other meanings
Which is an example of a verb + noun collocation?
a terrible mistake
commonly mistaken
make a mistake
do a mistake
Identify the correct meaning for this polisemy word within this sentence:
+ I am your friend you can bank on me
a financial institution
a type of seat
rely upon
the building where a financial institution offers services
What a speaker (or writer) assumes is true or known by a listener (or reader)
Supposition
Spatial Deixis
Pragmatics
Presupposition
The study of "invisible meaning"
What is meant even when it isn't actually said or written
Based on shared assumptions and expectations
Think about how it makes the speaker/listener feel...
context
words
face
contextual
Rules of conversation determine...
1) locution/proposition (idea)
2) illocution (communicative intent)
3) perlocution (communicative intent)
4) essential elements (words and non-verbal commands)
1) who talks and when they talk (turn taking)
2) who sets the topic of the talk
3) who may change the topic and when it may be changed
4) what kind of language is used in the talk (formal, informal, polite)
5) how much information to give
6) give relevant information
7) give truthful information
Syntax
semantics
pragmatics
Distant from the speaker
Skinner's behaviorist theory of language development regards _____________________ as the most important contributor to the child's learning of language.
innate or inherited neural structures
observational learning
imitation of and reinforcement by parents
interaction with peers
Three-year-old Sarah is crying because, in her words, she is afraid of 'mouses.' Sarah's use of the word 'mouses' would be described by experts on child language as an example of
Phonemic regularization
Universal Grammar
Babbling
Overregularization
A problem with learning theories of child language development is that they
do not account for imitation of the parents
emphasize linguistic relativity
cannot explain how language rules are acquired
apply only to the telegraphic stage level
Grammar is an inherent biological capacity of human beings (e.g. biologically determined)
Bandura, Learning Theory
Bruner, Interactionist
Chomsky, Nativism
Skinner, Behaviorist
Wernicke’s area is
left frontal
left posterior
right frontal
right posterior
Language is at what part of the brain?
amigdala
left hemisphere
right hemisphere
temporal lobe
