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