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NATURE OF LANGUAGE

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Nature of language by

a)

Noam Chomsky (LAD)

b)

Max Muller (The natural sound)

c)

Widdowson, H.G (1996)

d)

God

2.

What is language?

a)

Complex system encharged of saving the world by words.

b)

It serves as a means of cognition and communication: it enables us to think ourselves and to cooperate with other people in our community.

c)

In the play he is reffered to as a monster, but that is better than being an ogre.

d)

Essential think for the humankind to survive and has served to extend control over other parts of the creation.

3.

Unique features of human language that differ from animal communication?

a)

Flexibility and ilimited.

b)

Arbitrariness and duality.

c)

Originally and individual.

d)

Medium and mode.

4.

Why animal communication can not be developed equal to human language?

a)

These primates are not physiologically equipped with the kind of vocal organs suited to human speech.

b)

Our judgements are bound to be anthropocentric.

c)

Animals can be induced to acquire language, it cannot essence be specific to the human species.

d)

Human language is just for humanity.

5.

Define in 3 words the importance of language to humankind?

4 lines
6.

What is arbitrariness?

a)

The possibility of union between any sound chain and concept.

b)

Linguistic sign that is related to its meaning

c)

Linguistic sign unrelated to its meaning

d)

None

7.

Through a drawing, represent the way in which birds or bees communicate.

8.

The purpose of linguistics is...

a)

Science that studies the meaning of words and expressions.

b)

understand a set of elements and rules that allow the construction of meaningful sentences

c)

Explain how to write correctly.

d)

Investigate the origin, evolution and structure of language.

9.

Ron Scollon (2004) language is not something that comes in "nicely packaged units and that it certanlly is...

a)

"a complex, specialized skill, wich develops in the child spontaneously"

b)

"a multiple, complex and kaleidoscopic phenomenon".

c)

"a sistematic means communicating ideas"

d)

"acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience or instruction"

10.

Choose posible definitions of lenguaje

a)

Sistematic and arbitrary simbols.

b)

The simbols have conventionalized meanings to which they refer.

c)

Used for communication in a community or culture.

d)

All of them