ENG511 Final Term Important MCQs 2025 by Nimma Malik

IMP MCQs

1. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has strong as well as weak points.
2. The language a person speaks affects his thoughts and perspectives on the world.
3. Deaf persons without language can think.
4. Attempts to teach language (or a language like system of communication) to other primates may be divided into three groups.
5. Lateralization is not limited to humans or even to primates.
6. The notion that language shapes thought patterns is commonly referred to as the Whorf hypothesis.
7. The meaning of words is linguistic in origin.
8. Evolution of language is the gradual change in human language over time.
9. The right hemisphere (RH) has some talents in the linguistic realm.
10. The development of lateralization from examining the results of a surgical operation known as a hemispherectomy.
11. Speech is Essential for Thought.
12. In evolutionary terms, speech may be an example of exaptation.
13. The nervous system in humans is predominantly contralateral.
14. Linguistic determinism refers to the notion that a language determines certain
15. Linguistic determinism and relativity were valid concepts. They can be broadly organized
16. Animal communication systems are both interesting and impressive, but very limited in what they are able to express.
17. With regard to our evolutionary ancestors, the social cognition hypothesis is that language evolved as a bonding device.
18. Darwinian theory is based on the concept of continuity.
19. Sapir and Whorf state that language and thought are two closely related terms.
20. the learning of language will determine or influence the way we understand our culture and the world.
21. Lack of vocabulary does not indicate lack of concept.
22. studies of very young infants have found right-ear advantages for speech as well.
23. In English, there is a distinction between what Whorf called individual nouns (more
24. Thus, Wernicke’s aphasia is associated with deficits in comprehension and semantic organization.
25. Agrammatic patients have a selective deficit in accessing closed-class words.
26. Parameters is a framework within generative linguistics.
27. English is a very strict word-order language.
28. The human brain is divided into two hemispheres - left and right hemispheres.
29. There are two main functions that the Wernicke-Geschwind model explores: comprehension and responding to the written word and comprehension and responding to spoken language.
30. positive evidence is evidence that a particular utterance is grammatical.
31. negative evidence is evidence that a particular utterance is ungrammatical.

32) Persons with Aphasia (PWA)

33. Wernicke's aphasia, also known as receptive aphasia.
34. Specific language impairment (SLI).
35. Unlike pidgins, the creoles resembled the structural rules of other languages.
36. Pure alexia refers to the inability to read.
37. The corpus callosum connects the left side of the brain to the right side, each side being known as a hemisphere.
38. Learning rules by self-discovery is the essence of the process of induction.
39. Explication increases with age.
40. Learning styles are individual differences in learning.
41. Strategy-based Instruction (SBI).
42. Perceptual learning style is an approach to learning through the five senses.
43. most successful learners utilize both visual and auditory input.
44. Compensation strategies are communication strategies used by learners to compensate for limitations in their language.
45. Communication strategies are strategies that learners use to overcome these problems in order to convey their intended meaning.
46. Classical Method focuses on grammatical rules, memorization.
47. Explication: The nature of explication is the process whereby the rules and structures of a second language are explained to a learner.
48. There is no demonstrated critical age for learning syntax.
49. Audio Lingual Method (ALM) was a rejection of its classical predecessor, the GTM Grammar-Translation Method.