UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR

Who is the father of modern linguistics?

• Ferdinand Saussure

• Noam Chomsky

• Stephen Krashen

• Stephen Chomsky

Nativists and generativists both think that language is innate.

• TRUE

• FALSE

On the first stage, babies do not go through the same stages of language development because of their race and environment.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following statements is correct?

• Kids only acquire language at the age of 5.

• Kids who have above average IQ acquires language compared to average ones.

• Kids acquires language and knows about how it works at a really early age.

• None of the above

For the nativists, where does the ability to learn and use language is biologically hardwired?

• behavior

• brain

• environment

• mouth

For the nativists, humans are not born with a particular language.

• FALSE. Language is innate.

• FALSE. Language is already instilled in the brain.

• TRUE. Babies are not capable of learning at a very early stage

• TRUE. We only pick up sounds and turn them as our mother tongue.

According to the nativists, infants master language way faster than they should if they are a blank slate.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Babbling of babies is universal.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Babies prefers labial sounds compared to other sounds such as stop sounds and low vowel sounds.

• FALSE. Babies prefer stop sounds only.

• FALSE. Babies prefer labial and stop sounds than low vowel sounds.

• FALSE. Babies prefer stop sounds and low vowel sounds than labial sounds.

• FALSE. Babies prefers labial, stop and low vowel sounds.

What do you call the sound made with the lips?

• alveolar

• bilabial

• labial

• stop articulations