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Chapter 2: Origins of Human Language

Multiple Choice

1. The theoretical perspective that humans’ ability to learn language is not the result of innate or genetically based predisposition that evolved specifically for language, but an aspect of our cognitive abilities, including general abilities of learning and memory is known as
a. anti-nativist theory.
b. linguistic theory.
c. psychodynamic theory.
d. evolutionary theory.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: 2.1 Why Us?
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

2. Which language researcher attempted to define language with 16 characteristics, or design features, of spoken human language?
a. Chomsky
b. Hockett
c. Pinker
d. Darwin
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: 2.1 Why Us?
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

3. Bees introduced into a hive of bee species different from their own will likely “dance” according to
a. the new hive style.
b. their own unique style, unrelated to past experience.
c. the style of their own genetic ancestors.
d. a combination of old and new styles.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: 2.1 Why Us?
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

4. Which of Hockett’s design features of human language can also be attributed to honeybee communication?
a. Arbitrariness
b. Duality of patterning
c. Reflexiveness
d. Interchangeability
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: 2.1 Why Us?
Bloom’s Level: 4. Analyzing

5. Experiments in which apes are taught a language or symbolic system indicate that apes can
a. learn to use symbols to communicate, but only if they are not arbitrary.
b. learn to use words accurately, but only to refer to objects that are physically present.
c. use combinations of familiar symbols to express new concepts.
d. combine words into sentences as well as a human 3-year-old is able to.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: 2.1 Why Us?
Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying

6. Even though vervet monkeys seem to be able to produce specific distress calls from birth without the benefit of experience, they acquire the ability to respond appropriately to those calls only after several months of life, presumably due to experience. This finding suggests that
a. human language and vervet calls arise from different cognitive mechanisms.
b. vervet calls are a direct evolutionary precursor of human language.
c. the ability to produce human language is innate but the ability to understand it is not.
d. human infants need a great deal of exposure to language before they can understand it, but less exposure is needed to produce it.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: 2.1 Why Us?
Bloom’s Level: 5. Evaluating

7. An example of Hockett’s productivity characteristic in non-human primate communication would be demonstrated by an ape making the sign for
a. banana in order to ask a researcher for a banana.
b. banana when the researcher points to a banana.
c. sweet sausage when asked to identify a banana before having learned the sign for banana.
d. door when asked to identify a banana.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: 2.1 Why Us?
Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying

8. The awareness between two or more individuals that they are paying attention to the same thing is known as
a. homesign.
b. linguistic code.
c. universal grammar.
d. joint attention.
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: 2.2 Social Underpinnings of Language
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

9. Given a choice between two buckets in which only one bucket contains a treat, a chimpanzee will be _______ likely to choose a bucket that a human reached for _______ a bucket that a human pointed to.
a. less; than
b. more; than
c. equally; as
d. as un-; as
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: 2.2 Social Underpinnings of Language
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

10. Hare and Tomasello found that chimpanzees will reach for a bucket containing a treat if a human reaches for the same bucket—but not if the human points to the bucket to signal the presence of a treat in it. This suggests that chimpanzees do not understand the
a. intention of others to act in certain ways.
b. language of others.
c. intention of others to communicate with them.
d. sign language of others.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: 2.2 Social Underpinnings of Language
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

11. Researchers have found that chimpanzees are not able to understand pointing cues but dogs are able to do so. This suggests that compared to chimpanzees, dogs
a. are more intelligent.
b. are better at picking up social cues.
c. have superior language skills.
d. are more motivated by food.
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: 2.2 Social Underpinnings of Language
Bloom’s Level: 4. Analyzing

12. A 30-month-old child, who at 6 months engaged relatively little with her parents in joint-attention activities, is expected to _________ than a 30-month-old who had at 6 months engaged more in joint-attention activities.
a. have a smaller vocabulary
b. demonstrate worse social skills
c. exhibit more imperative pointing
d. exhibit more declarative pointing
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: 2.2 Social Underpinnings of Language
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

13. Research suggests that human children produce more examples of _______ communication than apes, who produce primarily _______ messages.
a. imperative; declarative
b. declarative; imperative
c. altruistic; declarative
d. imperative, altruistic
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: 2.2 Social Underpinnings of Language
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

14. _______ is the set of rules that determines how linguistic elements, such as words, can be combined to convey meaning.
a. Evolutionary adaptation
b. Productivity
c. Recursion
d. Syntax
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: 2.3 The Structure of Language
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

15. The theory of universal grammar claims that
a. all human languages can be described by essentially the same rules of grammar.
b. all species of primates have the capacity to learn grammar.
c. humans are born with implicit knowledge of the rules of grammar of all human languages.
d. humans are born with a predisposition to learn certain kinds of structures more easily than other kinds of structures.
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: 2.3 The Structure of Language
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

16. Chomsky suggested that human knowledge must have a(n) _______ component, as evidenced by the slave boy/Pythagorean theorem dialogue demonstration.
a. learned
b. altruistic
c. memorized
d. innate
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: 2.3 The Structure of Language
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

17. The theory of universal grammar predicts that
a. a new language discovered in a remote region of South America would have structural patterns that children are innately predisposed to learn.
b. learning French will be easier for a child born to French-speaking parents than for a child born to Japanese-speaking parents who was adopted by French-speaking parents as an infant.
c. a child will be unable to learn a language with recursion.
d. all languages will be equally easy to learn at any time in one’s life.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: 2.3 The Structure of Language
Bloom’s Level: 5. Evaluating

18. Keith and Cathy Hayes (1951) were able to teach Viki, a young female chimpanzee, to
a. utter several dozen vocalized human words.
b. utter just four indistinct human words.
c. utter several words in French.
d. communicate using American Sign Language.
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: 2.4 The Evolution of Speech
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

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