linguistics questions

Q1): Choose the right answer for each of the following statement:

1- Mental lexicon is believed to be stored in the --

A- Broca's area B-Hippocampus

C- Wernick's area D- angular gyrus

2- It is an experimental technique used to prove that language is processed by the LH where the electrical waves of

Ans : A- EEG

A- EEG B- RCBF

C- CPH D- hemisphrectomy

3- One of the linguistic tasks of the RH is processing --------------------:

A- literal meanings B- jokes

C- signs D- comprehension

4- The main pretexts that justifies children/ adults difficulty to perceive non-native sounds is:

A- learning strategies B- surrounding environment

C- attention loss D- brain accustomedness to L1 phonology

5- It is widely believed that the emergence of children involuntary crying immediately after getting birthed happens for the sake of :

A- environmental change B- enlarging lungs

C- encountering outer air D- stretching the vocal cords

6- The first word of most children lacks :

A- final consonants B- initial consonant

C- vowel D- diphthong

7- The conceptualization of children first word utterance varies depending on:

A- child temperament B- his/her age

C- cognitive abilities D- linguistic abilities

8- Late bilinguals are believed be superior to early bilinguals in --------------:

A- pronunciation B- word size

C- pragmatics D- grammar

9- One privilege of being in informal contact with native speakers is that it gives the bilingual individual the ability to acquire ----------------------

A- street language B- regional pronunciation

C- informal vocabulary D- all possible

10- Psycholinguistics concerns studying the relationship between language and ----:

A- brain B- child behavior

C- second language acquisition D- neurons

Q2): Mark the following statements as either true or false depending on its truth value:

1- Broca's area is the zone in the RH where language is produced fluently. ( )

2- children rely only on segmental features to slash the speech stream . ( )

3- Non-native sounds which share features with native sounds were found to activate different brain regions. ( )

4- It was found that language has biological bases in neonates. ( )

5- Early bilinguals repertoires are activated in the same RH regions. ( )

6- One of the ways children acquire their native phonology is by building predictions and schemes. ( )

7- Children are better than adults in noticing, forming similarities, finding differences. ( )

8- Children of months are more attuned to familiar stimuli . ( )

9- Human ability to distinguish surrounding sounds begins at the age of 2 month.

( )

10- cognitive functions become stable by the age of 6 years . ( )