Ling1010 - Fall 2008 - Practice Questions For The Bonus Exam

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These questions are meant to help you in your preparation for the Bonus Exam. Remember that the Bonus Exam is "risk-free", i. E. It will replace your lowest exam score, but if your Bonus Exam score is the lowest one, it will be disregarded. Good luck!

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1.

In which of the following brain regions does auditory processing occur?
- A.
  
  Parietal lobe
- B.
  
  Frontal lobe
- C.
  
  Temporal lobe
2.

A structure-independent rule for making yes/no-questions, such as ‘Move the First Infl’ rule:
- A.
  
  Generates all and only the grammatical yes/no-questions.
- B.
  
  Both undergenerates and overgenerates.
- C.
  
  Results in overregularization errors.
3.

Which of the following is TRUE of Wernicke’s aphasia?
- A.
  
  Resulting from an injury to the right parietal lobe, it causes echolalia.
- B.
  
  Characterized by slow, effortful speech, it causes an inability to comprehend grammatical distinctions.
- C.
  
  Caused by an injury in the perisylvian region, it is characterized by difficulty in finding specific words.
4.

How many times can one apply the rule V’ → V CP in a single sentence?
- A.
  
  Only once
- B.
  
  Only twice
- C.
  
  Without limit
5.

The relation between the specifier of an XP and the X' node is:
- A.
  
  Sisterhood
- B.
  
  Motherhood
- C.
  
  Grandmotherhood
6.

Given the sentences below, we can infer that the sentence in (1) ________ the sentence in (2). (1) Not everyone attended the lecture on quantification. (2) Someone attended the lecture on quantification.
- A.
  
  Entails
- B.
  
  Implicates
- C.
  
  Repeats
7.

The term ______________ refers to the ability to discriminate between situations in which a declarative sentence is true from those in which it is false.
- A.
  
  Truth-condition
- B.
  
  Deep Structure
- C.
  
  Truth-value judgment
8.

An entailment is a type of linguistic inference defined as follows: “A group of sentences G entails a sentence S if and only if ____.”
- A.
  
  Whenever every member of G is false, S is true.
- B.
  
  Whenever every member of G is true, S is also true.
- C.
  
  Whenever every member of G is true, S is false.
9.

Which of the following utterances is TRUE in the situation represented by the picture below?
- A.
  
  No man cry.
- B.
  
  Every man cries.
- C.
  
  Not every man cries.