ENG511 Midterm Past Paper by Zainee Academy

1. The three pioneering workers in early psycholinguistics are Paul Broca, Charles hocket and William levlet.
2. Children’s acquisition of language is done with no formal training.
3. Cohesive relations are un-structured.
4. The process of accessing and retrieving lexical information from memory is influenced by a number of factors.
5. Late closure strategy states that, wherever possible, we prefer to attach new items to the current constituent.

Q6. Figurative language is not merely an ornamental tool, rather it has become a powerful….?

1. Way of communication
2. Idea of contrast
3. Conceptual tool
4. Genre is type of discourse research that has a narrative discourse.
5. Serial models assume that we begin with the overall idea of an utterance, followed by syntactic organization, content words, morphemes, and phonology.

Q9. Motor commands from the brain specify the target location for the articulation in the…?

1. Vocal tract. (chatgpt ans.)
2. Larynx
3. Palate
4. Esophagus

Q10. The rules of proper conversation --- with the culture.

1. Vary. (Chatgpt ans.)
2. Conflict
3. Cross
4. Oppose
5. Some studies of gender differences reveal that males speak more and interrupt more than females.
6. ---- means communication within the social institution of society. Institutional discourse (ans. not sure)

Q13. Grammatical morphemes are conspicuously ---in children’s early word combination.

1. Observed (chatgpt ans.)
2. Investigates

Q14. Cross-linguistics studies enable us to explore both universal and particular aspects of…?

1. Language. (chatgpt ans.)
2. Culture
3. In linguistic prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual --- segment. Phonetic (ans. Not sure)
4. We spontaneously interrupt our speech and correct ourselves.

Absent

a) Self-repairing. b) System repairing c) Minute repairing

17. A speech error is a deviation from apparently intended form of an utterance.

Q18. Knowing how to use gestures and words to show off object make assertion and make requests etc. is called--- competence.

1. Functional
2. Behavioral
3. Communicative (chatgpt ans.)
4. Symbolic

Q19. Steps in process of developing a processing system:

1. Input
2. Output
3. Storage
4. All of these.

Correct answer: All of these.

Q20. According to the usage-based constructivist theory, the child learns the knowledge of language and syntax through ---- alone.

1. Positive input.
2. Positive output
3. Negative input
4. Negative output

Correct answer: Positive input.

21. Sentence and clause types and nonfinite verbal are important in this research because they are directly related to complex, embedded syntax.