According to the principle of ____, words mean what people agree that they mean.
a. conventionality
b. contrast
c. symbolic arbitrariness
d. differential meaning
Ques. 2Symbols that resemble their referents in some way and are not arbitrarily symbolic are termed ____.
a. words.
b. phonemes.
c. morphemes.
d. icons.
Ques. 3Your twin nephews seem to have developed their own special language and, despite concentrated effort, you struggle to understand it. For reasons that are completely unclear to you, they call their favorite candy osploth.. It has no ingredients that sound anything like the name they use nor is its actual name anything like osploth.. Which property of language does this suggest?
a. arbitrary symbolic
b. productivity
c. the dynamic property
d. regularity of structure
Ques. 4On a planet where cows are called zoht, the inhabitants use the name zoht any time they refer to cows. A psycholinguist would argue on the basis of this fact that the aliens' language is ____.
a. regularly structured
b. arbitrarily symbolic
c. dynamic
d. static
Ques. 5Which property of language conveys the notion that we are able to exchange thoughts and feelings with others?
a. arbitrarily symbolic
b. structured at multiple levels
c. generative
d. communicative
Ques. 6Language is most accurately described as ____.
a. communicative, statically symbolic, and productive
b. regularly structured, communicative, and statically symbolic
c. structured at multiple levels, dynamic, and abstractly leveled
d. regularly structured, productive, and dynamic
Ques. 7The study of language structure and change is called ____.
a. sociolinguistics
b. neurolinguistics
c. linguistics
d. psycholinguistics
Ques. 8Compare and contrast the network and connectionist approaches with respect to how they accommodate learning.
What will be an ideal response?
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