A) 1957 B) 1948 C) 1971 D) 1965
A) Describe the historical evolution of language. B) Construct a formal theory of grammar. C) Teach people how to speak correctly. D) Catalog all the world's languages.
A) Predict how language will change over time. B) Define the meaning of every word. C) Generate all and only the grammatical sentences of a language. D) Translate sentences between different languages.
A) Implicit knowledge of their language. B) Formal education in grammar. C) Public speaking skills. D) Ability to speak multiple languages.
A) Generative. B) Functional. C) Behaviorist. D) Structuralist.
A) Semantic rules. B) Transformational rules. C) Phonological rules. D) Pragmatic rules.
A) The social context of an utterance. B) The sound waves of speech. C) The underlying phrase structure of a sentence. D) The meaning of individual words.
A) Adjectives must agree with nouns. B) Grammaticality is independent of meaning. C) All sentences must be meaningful. D) Poetry violates grammatical rules.
A) Clarity and simplicity. B) Conformity to the rules of the grammar. C) Acceptability to all native speakers. D) Truth value or factual accuracy.
A) It must be easy for children to learn. B) It must be applicable to computer programming. C) It must account for the linguistic intuition of the native speaker. D) It must be based on observable speech data only.
A) Romanticism. B) Empiricism. C) Behaviorism. D) Platonism.
A) Too complex to be learned. B) Inadequate for describing natural language. C) A type of transformational grammar. D) Focused only on word meaning.
A) Psychology. B) Sociology. C) Anthropology. D) Biology.
A) All possible questions. B) Simple, active, declarative sentences. C) Sentences with complex metaphors. D) The most frequently used words.
A) A verb phrase must come before a noun phrase. B) All sentences must have a verb. C) A sentence can be rewritten as a Noun Phrase and a Verb Phrase. D) A sentence is synonymous with a noun phrase.
A) A single word. B) An active sentence. C) A question. D) A meaningless string.
A) Written and spoken forms. B) Deep structure and surface structure. C) Primary and secondary meanings. D) Formal and informal registers.
A) The creation of new words. B) The embedding of phrases within phrases. C) Words to change their pronunciation. D) Sentences to be translated.
A) A syntactic component with base and transformational rules. B) A component solely for social context. C) A list of all possible sentences. D) A component that ignores syntax.
A) Historical sound change B) Metaphorical transformation C) Passive transformation D) Semantic shift
A) "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." B) "It was a dark and stormy night." C) "The cat sat on the mat." D) "To be or not to be, that is the question." |