The word with would be considered
a. a closed class word
b. an open class word
c. a content word
d. a Stage II word
Ques. 2Children's earliest questions are usually
a. yes/no questions
b. statements with rising intonation
c. wh-questions
d. both a and c
Ques. 3Which of these constructions develops LAST in normal language acquisition?
a. negation
b. progressive verbs
c. anaphora
d. truncated passives
Ques. 4According to Chomsky, sentences can be broken into two levels:
a. s-structures and d-structures
b. universal and language specific paradigms
c. phrase structures and lexical structures
d. phonetic structures and morphological structures
Ques. 5According to Hyams, American children initially omit the subject in many of their early sentences because
a. the subject is implied by the child
b. children have difficulty using pronouns
c. all children are born with the null-subject parameter set to on and must eventually learn switch it
d. telegraphic speech generally includes objects but omits subjects because they are semantically more complex.
Ques. 6Sentences like The window was broken
a. are truncated passives
b. are the rarest kind of passives used by children
c. have animate subjects
d. specify an inanimate agent
Ques. 7Recent research using the preferential looking paradigm with very young children suggests that
a. language production lags behind comprehension
b. language comprehension lags behind production
c. comprehension and production develop at the same rate
d. children do not use word order to help interpret sentence meanings
Ques. 8According to Brown's classification system, Stage I children
a. produce mostly one word utterances
b. are just beginning to speak
c. make sentences consisting of no more than one clause
d. have many utterances that are two words long
Ques. 9The acquisition of the negative
a. follows regular and predictable rules for all children learning English
b. begins near the end of the second year
c. is variable, reflecting a complex interaction of syntactic, semantic and input factors
d. has not been studied sufficiently for researchers to formulate definitive hypotheses about its nature
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