Introduction to Linguistics - Revision

Prenatal exposure to music can influence a person’s music taste later in life.

What is the performative function of language?

Which of the following statements about reading is true?

Being bilingual can delay mental decline, such as dementia, by approximately two years.

Which of the following statements about sign language is true?

Wild children who grow up without language or human contact often struggle to learn language later in life

Which of the following is true?

According to the history-based definition, who is considered bilingual?

Languages always change at the same rate across all aspects.

Chat language is influenced by pronunciation, uses abbreviations, and often lacks punctuation.

Bilingualism always results in better proficiency in both languages compared to monolinguals.

What does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in its strong version suggest?

Sign language evolves and changes like any other language.

Animals like vervet monkeys and birds demonstrate all the features of human language.

How many languages are there in the world according to estimates?

It is not linguists who determine whether two speech forms are considered dialects or languages.

What is the primary focus of descriptive linguistics?

Which of the following languages is spoken by the largest population?

What is one possible reason humans developed speech organs?

What is the main difference between learning and acquisition?

What sound elements are preserved when a fetus hears speech in the womb?

Infants can recognize passages frequently heard in the womb after birth.

Linguistics focuses solely on grammar and prescriptive rules.

What does the design feature “arbitrariness” mean?

What is the main argument of the "Mama" theory about the origin of languages?

What type of language is Hungarian based on its typology?

What is a characteristic of "chat language"?

Body language, such as facial expressions and gestures, is universally understood and unaffected by culture.

Which theory suggests that all languages evolved from one original language?