week 11 quiz

In English, a speaker can say the following as a polar question Could we have ice cream for dinner? The declarative form for this structure is: We could have ice cream for dinner. This shows that English polar question formation strategies include: Question 3 options: do-support subject-auxiliary inversion interrogative phrase fronting rising intonation

subject-auxiliary inversion

Which of the following English question forms shows 'interrogative phrase substitution' but not 'interrogative phrase fronting' Question 7 options: The javalinas ate something, right? The javalinas ate what? The javalinas ate the jackolantern? What did the javalinas eat?

The javalinas ate what?

When we call something 'syntactic movement', what do we mean by that? Question 1 options: The morphemes in a sentence are pronounced in the same order as we'd expect in a simple sentence The morphemes in a sentence are pronounced in a different order than we'd expect in a simple sentence The sentence is pronounced with a different tone of voice than we'd expect in a simple sentence There is an extra morpheme in a sentence, beyond what would be in a simple sentence

The morphemes in a sentence are pronounced in a different order than we'd expect in a simple sentence

Which of the following English question forms shows 'interrogative phrase substitution' and 'interrogative phrase fronting' Question 14 options: The javalinas ate something, right? The javalinas ate the jackolantern? The javalinas ate what? What did the javalinas eat?

What did the javalinas eat?

A 'polar question' is Question 6 options: a question that seeks confirmation (yes) or denial (no) a question asked in the far north a question that seeks information a question that is focused on something cold

a question that seeks confirmation (yes) or denial (no)

A 'content question' is Question 12 options: a question that is focused on something cold a question asked in the far north a question that seeks confirmation (yes) or denial (no) a question that seeks information

a question that seeks information

Natural human languages seem always to Question 2 options: use syntactic movement for asking and answering questions make it difficult for communicators to ask and answer questions fail to include any grammatical features to allow speakers to ask and answer questions include a systematic grammatical way to ask and answer questions

include a systematic grammatical way to ask and answer questions

The English morphemes 'who', 'what', 'when', 'where', 'why', 'how' and 'which' are the: Question 11 options: question particles asking words interrogative phrases information seekers

interrogative phrases

In English, a speaker can say the following and raise the pitch of their voice on the last syllable: You liked that movie? This shows that English polar question formation strategies include: Question 15 options: default declarativity intonation only syntactic movement question particle

intonation only

To create a content question in some (but not all) languages, we must Question 4 options: scramble the order of constituents randomly replace some constituent of the sentence with the appropriate interrogative phrase move the interrogative phrase to the beginning of the sentence write the sentence with a question mark

move the interrogative phrase to the beginning of the sentence

The relationship between question forms and statement forms in a language appears to be: Question 5 options: statement forms are derived from question forms statement forms and question forms are unrelated to each other question forms are derived from statement forms question forms and statement forms are identical to each other

question forms are derived from statement forms

In English, a speaker can say the following: You liked that movie, eh? This shows that English polar question formation strategies include: Question 8 options: question particle intonation only syntactic movement default declarativity

question particle

In an 'interrogative phrase in-situ' language, to form a content question, speakers just Question 9 options: move the interrogative phrase to the beginning of the sentence write the sentence with a question mark replace some constituent of the sentence with the appropriate interrogative phrase scramble the order of constituents randomly

replace some constituent of the sentence with the appropriate interrogative phrase

To create a content question in any language, we must first Question 10 options: move the interrogative phrase to the beginning of the sentence replace some constituent of the sentence with the appropriate interrogative phrase change the intonation of our voice add a question particle

replace some constituent of the sentence with the appropriate interrogative phrase

In English, a speaker can say the following: Did you like that movie? This shows that English polar question formation strategies include: Question 13 options: default declarativity intonation only question particle syntactic movement

syntactic movement