Week 3

What is a primary function of syntactic trees?

• To show the hierarchical structure of sentences.

• To define the meaning of individual words.

• To indicate the pronunciation of words.

• To list the vocabulary of a language.

The head of a phrase determines the syntactic category of that phrase.

• True

• False

Which of the following phrases is an example of a verb phrase (VP)?

• with a bone

• The big dog

• ran quickly

• under the table

In a right-headed language, the head of a phrase appears at the beginning of the phrase.

• True

• False

Which of the following does NOT exhibit a high degree of inflection?

• Inuit

• English

• Nahuatl

• Greenlandic

All languages have the same word order as English.

• True

• False

What does the term "constituent" refer to in syntax?

• A word that can stand alone.

• A type of sentence structure.

• A part of a phrase that functions as a single unit.

• A grammatical error.

The phrase structure rule for a noun phrase (NP) includes the possibility of modifiers like adjectives and determiners.

• True

• False

Phrase structure rules can differ significantly from one language to another.

• True

• False

Ambiguity in syntactic structures can arise due to the different ways constituents can be grouped in a sentence.

• True

• False