The structures of language include:

Related Mcqs:

1. Phonemes are the smallest units of______in a spoken language; morphemes are the smallest units of_______in language.

   A. sound; syntax
   B. meaning; syntax
   C. syntax; meaning
   D. sound; meaning

2. 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

3. A hypothesis concerning the role of language is shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought is called:

   A. legal- rational authority
   B. Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
   C. Routine activities theory
   D. None of these

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 structures, which respond when they stimulated by impulse coming via motor neuron, is:

   A. Receptors
   B. Effectors
   C. Schwann cells
   D. both a & b

6. Which nervous system controls the activity of the structures inside your body, such as your heart or your endocrine glands?

   A. Autonomic nervous system, which includes the sympathetic and parasympathetic system
   B. Somatic system, which includes the sympathetic system and parasympathetic system
   C. Autonomic system, which includes the central and somatic system
   D. Somatic system, which includes the central and autonomic system

7. All of the following are structures of the limbic system EXCEPT:

   A. Amygdala
   B. Hypothalamus
   C. Cerebellum
   D. Hippocampus

8. The neuron includes all of the following structures EXCEPT:

   A. Axon
   B. Myelin
   C. Blastula
   D. Soma

9. The drunken driving suspect was unable to hold his hand out to the side and bring this finger to a stop on his nose because of the brain structures depressed first by alcohol is the:

   A. hypothalamus
   B. corpus callosum
   C. cerebellum
   D. medulla

10. Which of the following is the correct sequence of structures through which information flows in a neuron?

    A. dendrites to cell body to synapse
    B. axon to soma to dendrites
    C. dendrites to soma to axon
    D. glia to dendrites to axon