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What is noun-category bias?

  • More speech errors are made with nouns than verbs.
  • Nouns are easier to learn after the critical age period.
  • Infants first learn nouns as they as conceptually easier to understand. (correct)
  • Nouns are significantly more present in pidgin languages.

Why does Pinker criticise language determinism?

  • Circular logic: if language constrains emotion, how did we feel the emotion needed for for the word before the word was invented. (correct)
  • He doesn't.
  • Determinism fallacy: words describing emotions can exist unique to a language but people of other languages can also feel that emotion.
  • fMRI data shows emotion activated more by memory of emotion that an emotional word does, therefore language is not that powerful.

What are 3 characteristics unique to human language, according to Hockett?

  • Productivity, Arbitrariness and Total Feedback
  • Traditional Transmission, Displacement and Total Feedback
  • Displacement, Productivity and Discreteness
  • Traditional Transmission, Productivity and Displacement (correct)

What is the fourth stage of language development?

<p>Telegraphic (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the 2 principles of the garden-path model of parsing?

<p>Minimal Attachment and Late Closure (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is pragmatics?

<p>Considering the context to determine what is meant, not just what is said. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Deep dyslexia negatively affects the...

<p>Non-lexical route (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Morton's Logogen Model is...

<p>Parallel and doesn't have word-to-letter feedback (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Sadhia doesn't like cats as much as horsies': has how many morphemes?

<p>10 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The Language Acquisition Devise was created by which approach?

<p>Nativist (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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