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Language

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is language?

a)

Language Is a complex system of communication encompassing spoken and written forms

b)

Language is learned through exposure and interaction, not solely genetic

c)

The language has a rigid and fixed structure

2.

What are the five characteristics of human?

a)

Displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, theoretical, Duality

b)

Displacement, productivity, descriptive, theorical

c)

Displacement, productivity, cultural transmission, diachronic

d)

Displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, duality, cultural transmission

3.

What’s displacement?

a)

Most linguists would probably agree that although many animals are able to comunícate, they do not actually have language in the sense humans do.

b)

This is the ability to use language to talk about times, places and people other than the “here and now”.

c)

This means that there is generally no natural, inherent relationship between the signs…

4.

What are the other features of human language?

a)

Reflexiveness, Discreteness

b)

Reflective,Discreet

c)

Discret, Reflexive

5.

When our ancestors began to speak?

a)

20,000- 30,000

b)

30,000 - 100,000

c)

23,000- 40,000

6.

What are the two areas specialized in language processing?

a)

Broca, basal ganglia

b)

Broca, wernicke

c)

Broca, brainstem

7.

What is cultural transmission?

a)

This refers to how language are acquired by our children.

b)

Refers to two separate layers of language working together to provide us with a pool of sounds which we can combine to communicate with one another.

c)

This refers that allowing us to continuously create new utterances, combining the building bricks.

8.

which side of the brain is Broca and wernicke located on?

a)

Right side

b)

Left side

c)

In front

9.

How linguistics can be studied?

a)

Synchronic- diachronic way

b)

Theoretical - diachronic way

c)

Theoretical- applied way

d)

Descriptive- prescriptive way

10.

What is linguistic?

a)

Lingüístics is the branch of biology that studies the evolution of human…

b)

Lingüístic is the study of mathematical structures in poetry, analyzing how numbers can influence…

c)

Linguistic is the science of language(s).