English homework help.
Q1): Choose the right answer for each of the following statement:
1- Mental lexicon is believed to be stored in the —
A- Broca’s area B-Hippocampus
C- Wernick’s area D- angular gyrus
2- It is an experimental technique used to prove that language is processed by the LH where the electrical waves of
Ans : A- EEG
A- EEG B- RCBF
C- CPH D- hemisphrectomy
3- One of the linguistic tasks of the RH is processing ——————–:
A- literal meanings B- jokes
C- signs D- comprehension
4- The main pretexts that justifies children/ adults difficulty to perceive non-native sounds is:
A- learning strategies B- surrounding environment
C- attention loss D- brain accustomedness to L1 phonology
5- It is widely believed that the emergence of children involuntary crying immediately after getting birthed happens for the sake of :
A- environmental change B- enlarging lungs
C- encountering outer air D- stretching the vocal cords
6- The first word of most children lacks :
A- final consonants B- initial consonant
C- vowel D- diphthong
7- The conceptualization of children first word utterance varies depending on:
A- child temperament B- his/her age
C- cognitive abilities D- linguistic abilities
8- Late bilinguals are believed be superior to early bilinguals in ————–:
A- pronunciation B- word size
C- pragmatics D- grammar
9- One privilege of being in informal contact with native speakers is that it gives the bilingual individual the ability to acquire ———————-
A- street language B- regional pronunciation
C- informal vocabulary D- all possible
10- Psycholinguistics concerns studying the relationship between language and —-:
A- brain B- child behavior
C- second language acquisition D- neurons
Q2): Mark the following statements as either true or false depending on its truth value:
1- Broca’s area is the zone in the RH where language is produced fluently. ( )
2- children rely only on segmental features to slash the speech stream . ( )
3- Non-native sounds which share features with native sounds were found to activate different brain regions. ( )
4- It was found that language has biological bases in neonates. ( )
5- Early bilinguals repertoires are activated in the same RH regions. ( )
6- One of the ways children acquire their native phonology is by building predictions and schemes. ( )
7- Children are better than adults in noticing, forming similarities, finding differences. ( )
8- Children of months are more attuned to familiar stimuli . ( )
9- Human ability to distinguish surrounding sounds begins at the age of 2 month.
( )
10- cognitive functions become stable by the age of 6 years . ( )
