1) Chomsky made various contributions to a) cognitive psychology. b) behaviourism. c) interactionism. 2) Chomsky totally rejected... a) constructivism. b) behaviourism. c) interactionism. 3) For Chomsky, UG is a/an ... mechanism of language learning. a) acquired b) learnt c) innate 4) For Chomsky, human language is.. a) similar to other types of animal communication. b) species-specific. c) acquired from the environment. 5) The "Poverty of Stimulus" hypothesis states that... a) the stimuli from the environment alone leads to language acquisition. b) the stimuli from the environment and the assotiations between principles and parameters lead to language acquisition. c) the stimuli from the environment alone cannot possible be responsible for language acquisition. 6) Why is creativity important in Chomsky's theory? a) Because novel sentences are evidence for the existence of UG. b) Because parametres are creative in nature. c) Because children are very original when they speak. 7) Principles are .... , or structural features that are common to all natural languages; so they are part of the child’s native endowment. a) binary choices b) fixed linguistic universals c) options that allow variation 8) Parameters are ... in linguistic structure. a) common to all languages b) innate general rules c) options that allow for variation 9) To acquire a language, a person needs... a) just UG. b) UG and evidence of a particular language. c) UG and parametre setting. 10) English and Spanish both set parametres for... a) SOV order. b) SVO order. c) VSO order. 11) The UG theory shifts the learning load to... a) lexis. b) grammar. c) discourse. 12) Direct negative evidence is a) the occurence of a language sample. b) the non-occurrence of a language sample. c) a correction. 13) Indirect negative evidence means a) something is not realised in the language. b) an indirect error correction or recast. c) something has been heard. 14) In first language acquisition, the child does not generally rely on... a) positive evidence. b) direct negative evidence. c) indirect negative evidence. 15) Head-first or head-last are examples of... a) principles. b) parametres. c) UG.

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