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5 Written Questions

1. features and characteristics that are universally true of all human languages
2. one of Hockett's universals, expressing the fact that the elements of language convey meaning
3. begins by appearing to have one kind of syntactic structure that is proven incorrect by later information in sentence
4. more than one sound is articulated at the same time
5. the study of acquisition, production and comprehension of language

5 Matching Questions

1. semantic case
2. surface structure
3. deep structure
4. performance
5. transformational rules

1. a also known as case role
2. b the literal string of words present in a sentence
3. c any behavior related to language
4. d chomsky's rules convert the deep structure into a surface structure, a sentence ready to be spoken
5. e the sentences true meaning

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. internalized knowledge of language and its rules that fully fluent speakers of the language have
   1. parse
   2. morpheme
   3. dysfluency
   4. competence
2. mental dictionary of morphemes and thesaurus
   1. syntax
   2. coarticulation
   3. linguistics
   4. mental lexicon
3. the study of the sounds of language, including how they are produced and how they are perceived
   1. morpheme
   2. language
   3. phoneme
   4. phonology
4. all the sounds falling within a set of boundraries are perceived as the the same
   1. mental lexicon
   2. coarticulation
   3. linguistic intuition
   4. categorical perception
5. the discipline that studies language as a formal system
   1. psycholinguistics
   2. aphasia
   3. language
   4. linguistics

5 True/False Question

1. case grammer or case roles → semantic analysis of sentences involves figuring out what semantic role is being played by each word
   

   True        False

2. flexibility → one of Hockett's universals, expressing the fact that the elements of language convey meaning
   

   True        False

3. parse → the characteristics that human languages have labels for all objects (as opposed to most animal communications)
   

   True        False

4. linguistic relativity hypothesis → one's subjective judgement that a sentence is correct
   

   True        False

5. linguistic intuition → features and characteristics that are universally true of all human languages
   

   True        False