The progressive morpheme -ing (as in Amy is singing) is:

The progressive morpheme -ing (as in Amy is singing) is:
 
  A. a free morpheme, because it adds meaning to the verb.
  B. a free morpheme, because it is free from any ordering constraints.
  C. a bound morpheme, because it adds meaning to the verb but it cannot stand alone in the sentence.
  D. a bound morpheme, because a speaker is bound to use it frequently.

Question 2

Which of the following is true about Open and Closed class words in language?
 
  A. closed class words are content words and open class words are function words.
  B. open class words are content words and closed class words are function words.
  C. open class words are verbs and adjectives and closed class words are nouns.
  D. closed class words are verbs and adjectives and open class words are nouns.

Question 3

Language productivity (or generativity) refers to the fact that:
 
  A. human knowledge of language can produce an infinite number of different sentences.
  B. children produce language spontaneously.
  C. researchers have produced (or generated) a large body of research about language structure.
  D. children's skill in producing language is typically behind their skill in comprehending it.

Question 4

Looking at words across languages, researchers have found that:
 
  A. all languages use the same words so that each word in one language corresponds to a single word in each other language.
  B. there is very little overlap in word meanings across languages so that every language describes the world in arbitrarily different ways.
  C. languages differ somewhat in the contents of their lexicons, and also in their preferred ways of describing elements in the world.
  D. regardless of content and frequency differences in the lexicons across languages, children are not sensitive to these differences until they enter school.

Question 5

Fast-mapping refers to:
 
  A. the ability to learn the meaning of a new word based on only a few instances.
  B. the ability to correctly reproduce the phonological form of a new word
  C. the phenomenon of overextension.
  D. the phenomenon of underextension.

Question 6

A child is presented with a picture of an unfamiliar animal and told it is called a hyrax. That child can use the Taxonomic assumption to draw which of the following inferences?
 
  A. the word hyrax can be used only when talking about the single specific example of the animal shown in the picture.
  B. the word hyrax can be extended to refer to all animals that look like animal in the picture.
  C. the word hyrax can be extended to refer to items that are thematically related to the animal in the picture, such as the type of food it likes to eat.
  D. the child would refuse to learn the word hyrax because not enough syntactic context was provided with the picture.