For Noam Chomsky, the semantic interpretation of a sentence comes from ________________?

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1. Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the _______________?

   A. innate capability index
   B. innate surface structure ability
   C. prosody index
   D. language acquisition device

2. According to Noam Chomsky’s theory of transformational grammar, a ‘Kernel’ is ______________________?

   A. the surface structure of a sentence
   B. the smallest unit of meaning in a language
   C. the deep structure of a sentence
   D. the basic declarative thought of the sentence

3. Noam Chomsky has emphasized that the acquisition of language by children is facilitated by:

   A. the number of times they hear a given word
   B. their ability to imitate the words and grammar modeled by parents
   C. the positive reinforced that adults give children for speaking correctly
   D. an inborn readiness to learn grammatical rules

4. Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing?
   1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures.
   2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all.
   3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’.
   4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 4
   D. 3 & 4

5. The semantic differential scale is used mainly to measure ____________?

   A. Values
   B. Opinions
   C. Attitudes
   D. Interests
   E. None of these

6. Semantic memory and episodic memory are classes of _________________?

   A. short-term memory
   B. iconic memory
   C. explicit memory
   D. implicit memory

7. The rationalist approach of Chomsky in explaining language development is also referred to as _______________?

   A. nativist
   B. empiricist
   C. cognitive
   D. culture-bound

8. Chomsky suggested that a person’s unique experiences with a language are most likely to influence the________of that person’s spoken sentences.

   A. surface structure
   B. linguistic determinism
   C. functional fixedness
   D. belief perseverance

9. According to Chomsky, humans have a________to develop language.

   A. perceptual set
   B. telegraphic readiness
   C. learning set
   D. biological predisposition

10. A theory that states that emotions are a join result of non-specific physiological arousal and interpretation of the arousal is called__________?

    A. Two-factor theory of emotion
    B. James-Lange theory of emotion
    C. Bem’s theory of emotion
    D. None of these