Unit 5

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

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

At an average rate, how many words does a 24 months old child know?

• 50

• 100

• 300

• 500

What do you call the sound made with the lips?

• alveolar

• bilabial

• labial

• stop articulations

Marked terms are associated with female terms

• False

• True

Which of the following words is unmarked?

• Go

• Went

• Gone

• Goes