LING 1010 UCONN EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔The notion of "second Darwinian revolution" refers to: - ✔✔a. The evolutionary
development of multi-cellular organisms
b. The evolutionary development of the mind
c. Creationism
B
✔✔Which of the following statements about "Williams syndrome" is FALSE? - ✔✔a.
People who have Williams syndrome use grammatically correct sentences
b. People who have Williams syndrome have a low IQ comparable to people with Down
syndrome
c. Williams syndrome causes people to be totally incapable of using language
C
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a unique feature of humans (in comparison with other
animal species)? - ✔✔a. Religion
b. Toolmaking
c. Science
B
✔✔Which of the following is the appropriate rule for the complex word symbolize? -
✔✔a. V0--> N0 V-1
b. V0 --> N-1 V-1
c. N0 --> N0 V-1
A
✔✔Which word pairs do NOT go together in the sense that they refer to the same thing
in the context of out course: - ✔✔a. Nature genes
b. Nurture environment
c. Empiricism innateness
C
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a property of modules according to Fodor? - ✔✔a.
Automaticity
b. Interacting with other modules
c. Domain-specificity
B
✔✔The word redable is complex. What is the general name for the formation process
that is involved here? - ✔✔a. Compounding
b. Derivation
c. Inflection
B
, ✔✔What is a prescriptive grammar? - ✔✔a. A grammar that analyzes the language
system that is shared by a speech community
b. A grammar that states precise rules that people of a particular speech community
should use when they speak
c. A grammar that offers a complete documentation of a language that recently was
entirely unknown
B
✔✔Cognitive science research distinguished three levels of analysis: - ✔✔a. The
parallel, serial, and connectionist level
b. The phonological, morphological, and semantic level
c. The computational, algorithmic, and implementation level
C
✔✔Which of the following is an example of a bound morpheme? - ✔✔a. un
b. do
c. cat
A
✔✔The correctness of phonotactic constraints that hold for a given language can be
established by using two methods. Which of the following three is NOT such a method?
- ✔✔a. Establishing what the phonemes are in that language
b. Study the manner in which loan words are adapted in that language
c. Judgement of people who are native speakers of that language
A
✔✔A word has three dimensions, namely: - ✔✔a. A lexical, a categorical and a
syntactic dimension
b. A phonological, a morphological, and a semantic dimension
c. A phonological, a morphological and a syntactic dimension
B
✔✔The affixes that are found in happiness, boyish, and joyful are: - ✔✔a. Suffixes
b. Infixes
c. Prefixes
A
✔✔If there is a relationship of "resemblance" between form and meaning we call a
word: - ✔✔a. An icon
b. A sign
c. A symbol
A
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔The notion of "second Darwinian revolution" refers to: - ✔✔a. The evolutionary
development of multi-cellular organisms
b. The evolutionary development of the mind
c. Creationism
B
✔✔Which of the following statements about "Williams syndrome" is FALSE? - ✔✔a.
People who have Williams syndrome use grammatically correct sentences
b. People who have Williams syndrome have a low IQ comparable to people with Down
syndrome
c. Williams syndrome causes people to be totally incapable of using language
C
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a unique feature of humans (in comparison with other
animal species)? - ✔✔a. Religion
b. Toolmaking
c. Science
B
✔✔Which of the following is the appropriate rule for the complex word symbolize? -
✔✔a. V0--> N0 V-1
b. V0 --> N-1 V-1
c. N0 --> N0 V-1
A
✔✔Which word pairs do NOT go together in the sense that they refer to the same thing
in the context of out course: - ✔✔a. Nature genes
b. Nurture environment
c. Empiricism innateness
C
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a property of modules according to Fodor? - ✔✔a.
Automaticity
b. Interacting with other modules
c. Domain-specificity
B
✔✔The word redable is complex. What is the general name for the formation process
that is involved here? - ✔✔a. Compounding
b. Derivation
c. Inflection
B
, ✔✔What is a prescriptive grammar? - ✔✔a. A grammar that analyzes the language
system that is shared by a speech community
b. A grammar that states precise rules that people of a particular speech community
should use when they speak
c. A grammar that offers a complete documentation of a language that recently was
entirely unknown
B
✔✔Cognitive science research distinguished three levels of analysis: - ✔✔a. The
parallel, serial, and connectionist level
b. The phonological, morphological, and semantic level
c. The computational, algorithmic, and implementation level
C
✔✔Which of the following is an example of a bound morpheme? - ✔✔a. un
b. do
c. cat
A
✔✔The correctness of phonotactic constraints that hold for a given language can be
established by using two methods. Which of the following three is NOT such a method?
- ✔✔a. Establishing what the phonemes are in that language
b. Study the manner in which loan words are adapted in that language
c. Judgement of people who are native speakers of that language
A
✔✔A word has three dimensions, namely: - ✔✔a. A lexical, a categorical and a
syntactic dimension
b. A phonological, a morphological, and a semantic dimension
c. A phonological, a morphological and a syntactic dimension
B
✔✔The affixes that are found in happiness, boyish, and joyful are: - ✔✔a. Suffixes
b. Infixes
c. Prefixes
A
✔✔If there is a relationship of "resemblance" between form and meaning we call a
word: - ✔✔a. An icon
b. A sign
c. A symbol
A
