Final Exam Revision

Which of the following does NOT explain the structural and lexical ambiguity?

 

• Ambiguity resulting from a word that has more than one meaning

• A sequence of words that can be structured in alternative ways

• Ambiguity resulting from the structure of the phrase or sentence

• A sequence of lexical categories

Assists performance

• Debilitative anxiety

• Trait anxiety

• Facilitative anxiety

Answer explanation

Facilitative anxiety assists performance. It is the level of anxiety which is perceived as motivating

Trait anxiety is generally considered part of a person’s personality rather than caused by a specific scenario.

Debilitative anxiety interferes with performance. It is the level of anxiety which is perceived as threatening or emotionally exhausting

All the options are related to what it means to know a word except

• to know how it is lexically categorized

• to know it could be made plural

• to know how it can function in a sentence

• to know how it is spelt

The phrase structure rules provide different analyses of syntactically ambiguous sentences.

• True

• False

The underlined phrase is the predicate of the sentence below:

“Eating apples while lying on the sofa is the boy’s favorite thing to do.

• True

• False

Competence refers to the actual use of language in abstract situations, while performance refers to mental knowledge.

 

• True

• False

All bound morphemes are affixes or bound bases.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Not all bound morphemes are affixes or bound bases. For example, in English forms such as ’ll or ’ve, are contracted or shortened forms of the auxiliaries will and would.

   I am used to create new words or to make words of a different grammatical class from the stem. I am​ ​ _______morphemes. ​

• inflectional

• both derivational and inflectional

• derivational

LAD

• Krashen

• Chomsky

All are factors for the speedy pace of change of English language EXCEPT

• More linguistics

• More technological innovations

• More mobility

• More migration