Exam 5: Learning the Structure of Sentences

Consider the following sentences and their corresponding yes/no questions: The woman who is winning the race is blind./ Is the woman who is winning the race blind? The woman is comforting the child who is crying./ Is the woman comforting the child who is crying? -What challenge do questions like these pose for children's acquisition of yes/no questions? What do their typical learning patterns suggest about the learning process?

Free

(Essay)

4.8/5

(32)

Question 1

Correct Answer:

Verified

In forming the question, children have to know which occurrence of is must appear at the beginning of the question. In English, this must always be the one in the main clause, regardless of whether it is the first or second occurrence in the sentence. For example, this applies to the second occurrence of is in the first sentence, but the first occurrence of is in the second sentence. In learning how to form yes/no questions, children do not seem to make mistakes about which is appears in this position. This suggests that they are relying on structural concepts like main clause rather than on the linear order of words in formulating the rule for question formation.

The semantic bootstrapping hypothesis asserts that

Free

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(29)

Question 2

Correct Answer:

Verified

The primary difference between rule-based and constructionist accounts is whether

Free

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(34)

Question 3

Correct Answer:

Verified

_______ suggest(s) that language stimuli does not contain enough information for children to acquire certain language structures and that some innate capacities must exist to help children extract important statistical information from the ambient language.

(Multiple Choice)

4.7/5

(38)

Question 4

_ illustrates a compositional relationship between words whereas _ is an example of a non-compositional compound.

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(43)

Question 5

Refer to the table. Brown's table demonstrates that a child of the age of

(Multiple Choice)

4.7/5

(33)

Question 6

Give an example of the kind of syntactic overgeneralization that might be produced by a 3- or 4-year-old child. What do such overgeneralizations suggest about children's learning of syntax?

(Essay)

4.8/5

(32)

Question 7

Refer to this sentence: Now you can enjoy a gourmet meal in your sweatpants. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(34)

Question 8

According to researcher Dan Everett, the Pirahã people of the Amazon lack

(Multiple Choice)

4.9/5

(34)

Question 9

The concept of linguistic performance is exemplified by a child that

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(33)

Question 10

Consider this sentence: The drink that is on the floor that is about to spill does contain coffee. What is the auxiliary verb this sentence?

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(37)

Question 11

Refer to the table. A child between 2 and 3 years of age would probably be able to produce which of the following utterances?

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(44)

Question 12

Using the connectionist model would be least appropriate to account for

(Multiple Choice)

4.9/5

(29)

Question 13

Lexical co-occurrence refers to

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(44)

Question 14

Swahili and Spanish, in which syntactic information is expressed via multiple affixes bound to words, are _______ languages.

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(35)

Question 15

What advice would you give parents who would like to help their young children learn how specific verbs can be used in sentences?

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(26)

Question 16

The principles and parameters theory suggests that children have the ability to learn any language because

(Multiple Choice)

4.8/5

(40)

Question 17

You can say John threw the stone but you cannot say The stone threw. Our understanding that the second sentence is not legal derives from our experience with

(Multiple Choice)

4.9/5

(34)

Question 18

Explain the difference between linguistic input and linguistic intake. How might this difference influence a child's language development?

(Essay)

4.7/5

(30)

Question 19

Consider this sentence: The turtle that Tommy got from Hiroki for Christmas has a cold. What information does the long-distance dependency convey?

(Multiple Choice)

4.9/5

(34)

Question 20

Showing 1 - 20 of 45

The semantic bootstrapping hypothesis asserts that

The primary difference between rule-based and constructionist accounts is whether

_______ suggest(s) that language stimuli does not contain enough information for children to acquire certain language structures and that some innate capacities must exist to help children extract important statistical information from the ambient language.

_ illustrates a compositional relationship between words whereas _ is an example of a non-compositional compound.

Refer to the table. Brown's table demonstrates that a child of the age of

Give an example of the kind of syntactic overgeneralization that might be produced by a 3- or 4-year-old child. What do such overgeneralizations suggest about children's learning of syntax?

Refer to this sentence: Now you can enjoy a gourmet meal in your sweatpants. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?

According to researcher Dan Everett, the Pirahã people of the Amazon lack

The concept of linguistic performance is exemplified by a child that

Consider this sentence: The drink that is on the floor that is about to spill does contain coffee. What is the auxiliary verb this sentence?

Refer to the table. A child between 2 and 3 years of age would probably be able to produce which of the following utterances?

Using the connectionist model would be least appropriate to account for

Lexical co-occurrence refers to

Swahili and Spanish, in which syntactic information is expressed via multiple affixes bound to words, are _______ languages.

What advice would you give parents who would like to help their young children learn how specific verbs can be used in sentences?

The principles and parameters theory suggests that children have the ability to learn any language because

You can say John threw the stone but you cannot say The stone threw. Our understanding that the second sentence is not legal derives from our experience with

Explain the difference between linguistic input and linguistic intake. How might this difference influence a child's language development?

Consider this sentence: The turtle that Tommy got from Hiroki for Christmas has a cold. What information does the long-distance dependency convey?

Origins of Human Language

Language and the Brain

Learning Sound Patterns

Learning Words

Speech Perception

Word Recognition

Understanding Sentence Structure and Meaning

Filters

Exam 5: Learning the Structure of Sentences

The semantic bootstrapping hypothesis asserts that

The primary difference between rule-based and constructionist accounts is whether

_______ suggest(s) that language stimuli does not contain enough information for children to acquire certain language structures and that some innate capacities must exist to help children extract important statistical information from the ambient language.

_______ illustrates a compositional relationship between words whereas _______ is an example of a non-compositional compound.

Refer to the table. Brown's table demonstrates that a child of the age of

Give an example of the kind of syntactic overgeneralization that might be produced by a 3- or 4-year-old child. What do such overgeneralizations suggest about children's learning of syntax?

Refer to this sentence: Now you can enjoy a gourmet meal in your sweatpants. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?

According to researcher Dan Everett, the Pirahã people of the Amazon lack

The concept of linguistic performance is exemplified by a child that

Consider this sentence: The drink that is on the floor that is about to spill does contain coffee. What is the auxiliary verb this sentence?

Refer to the table. A child between 2 and 3 years of age would probably be able to produce which of the following utterances?

Using the connectionist model would be least appropriate to account for

Lexical co-occurrence refers to

Swahili and Spanish, in which syntactic information is expressed via multiple affixes bound to words, are _______ languages.

What advice would you give parents who would like to help their young children learn how specific verbs can be used in sentences?

The principles and parameters theory suggests that children have the ability to learn any language because

You can say John threw the stone but you cannot say The stone threw. Our understanding that the second sentence is not legal derives from our experience with

Explain the difference between linguistic input and linguistic intake. How might this difference influence a child's language development?

Consider this sentence: The turtle that Tommy got from Hiroki for Christmas has a cold. What information does the long-distance dependency convey?

Origins of Human Language

Language and the Brain

Learning Sound Patterns

Learning Words

Speech Perception

Word Recognition

Understanding Sentence Structure and Meaning

Filters

_ illustrates a compositional relationship between words whereas _ is an example of a non-compositional compound.