WorksheetsTest №1 (206-207)
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 16mins
There is a clear definition of the term "language" universal for all the linguistic branches.
True
False
According to Wilhelm von Humboldt, language is...
an inherent capability of native speakers to understand and form grammatical sentences.
a work of the mind directed to a specific purpose and complied with human mental power
an abstract system of signs viewed both synchronically / diachronically.
words and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community.
Approaches considering language at the moment in time and, by contrast, considering the development and evolution of language through history are named...
Langue / Parole
Paradigm / Syntagm
Signifier / Signified
Synchronic / Diachronic
Provide the definitions or examples of Saussure's Langue and Parole
From the perspective of linguistics (semiotics), a sign is any (a) unit of language used to designate phenomena or objects.
There are the following properties of language: reflexivity, arbitrariness, productivity, (a) , and duality.
What term possesses these features?
Subconscious, deals with mother tongue, requires meaningful communication, a child is not aware of grammar rules and intuitively learns what is right or wrong.
Acquisition
Learning
First language acquisition includes ___ stages.
3
4
5
6
(a) states that the early years of life are the crucial time in which an individual can acquire the first language.
Choose all the possible features of caregiver speech / motherese.
repetitions
exaggerated inonation
pauses
slow tempo
frequent questions
Choose the stage depending on the characteristics:
"prelanguage", 6-11 months, recognisable intonation patterns, bilabial and nasal consonants [b], [m] + vowels.
Telegraphic speech
Cooing
Holophrastic speech
Babbling
The process of extending the rule application to items that are excluded from it in the language room is called...
overextension
overgeneralisation
Choose the correct order of stages in the question formation process.
Wh-questions, rising intonation, auxiliary forms
Auxiliary forms, Wh-questions, rising intonation
Rising intonation, Wh-questions, auxiliary forms
Auxiliary forms, rising intonation, Wh-questions
What word a child will choose in terms of hyponymy?
Plant - tree - oak
plant
tree
oak
Noam Chomsky is a famous American linguist whose behaviourist approach to language acquisition significantly influenced this study in the middle of the 20th century.
True
False
The linguist who designed a missile that carried pigeons that could see the target through the windows.
J. Piaget
J. Bruner
N. Chomsky
B. F. Skinner
This theory is considered the middle ground between behaviourism and innateness hypothesis.
Constructivism
Sociocultural theory
Interaction
Cognitive theory
What is input? Describe in your own words (1-2 sentences).
