Quiz Chapter Five

A native speaker of a language can only make a judgment as to the grammaticality of an utterance if that speaker has heard the sentence before.

False

The Principles and Parameters Theory is currently the only generative concept used by American linguists.

False

The concept of universal grammar helps explain why such elements of languages such as word order are the same in all languages.

False

A generative grammar is a finite set of rules that could hypothetically produce an infinite number of utterances.

True

Another name for a simple sentence is an independent clause.

True

The active version of a sentence compared to the passive is less wordy and less ambiguous.

True

The following is a simple sentence:"The phone rang."

True

The following is an interrogative sentence:"Is there a test today?"

True

The deep structure of the sentences, "She cannot bear children" (meaning she cannot give birth to any children) and "She cannot bear children (meaning she cannot tolerate children) are the same.

False

The phrase "a bright color" can be rewritten in symbols as NP→num adv N.

False

The-ess in English as in princess is a case ending.

False

Six tall boys are flying a kite. 1) S--> NP VP 2) NP--> Det Num Adv Noun 3) Noun--> N (Pl) 4) VP--> aux Verb NP 5) Verb--> V Tense 6) Tense--> Present In the above phase structure rules,

Adv should be Adj.

The following sentence: "If the phone rings, I will answer it" is a

Complex sentence

The following sentence "I went to a movie and ate popcorn because I had the day off from work" is a

Compound-complex sentence

The question of the grammatical correctness of an utterance is not based on:

Whether or not the utterance was heard or seen before.

The following sentence "I went to the movies and to a play" is a

compound sentence

The basic types of transformations include all of the following except:

deliberation

The word "the" belongs to the lexical category:

determiner

The following sentence "I went to the movies" is a

simple sentence

If said out of context, the sentence "Jan saw the people with binoculars" could serve as an example of

structural ambiguity