MCQ Bank
A child enters a two-word stage of language at around months of age.
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Which of the following is a form of language loss that affects the ceeanericesats ahility to produce their native language with their native accent?
- A) Phonological
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At what age children learn their first words?
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Competence enables native speaker to recognize ___ sentences.
- A) ambiguous
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What particular term Chomsky uses for ‘the way in which people use language in everyday life’?
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In Haugen’s model, selection refers to a language or a variety, which will be developed for communication.
- A) Broader
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What specific name Chomsky uses for ‘the representation of language in the mind’?
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Which of the following is a process in which changes in a group’s language, culture and system of values happen through interaction ‘Select with the the corect other?
- A) Acculturation
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Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire, had its first grammar written in.
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The ___ competence pertains to the knowledge of conventions for cohesion and coherence and rhetorical organization.
- A) Textual
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Surface structure is the aspect of description that determines the form of sentences.
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In Haugen’s model, ‘collaboration’ refers to the scale of the utilization in__.
- A) Writing
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Children still show greater comprehension than at the telegraphic stage.
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All existing linguistic systems play an equally important role in the acquisition process of a target language.
- A) Cross Linguistic Influence
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One important source of that enrichment has been the journal Language Learning, published from the university of.
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___ competence is to know how to recognize and repair communication breakdowns, how to work around gaps in one's knowledge of the language.
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Descriptive linguistics is closely allied with the.
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The first linguistic system to be affected by first language attrition is the ___.
- A) Lexical Attrition
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In functional linguistics, the concern is with language as a means of.
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Which of the following is a process in which changes in a group's language, culture and system of values happen through interaction with the other?
- A) Acculturation
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