TRUE OR FALSE? According to UG, children learn structure-dependent rules.
FALSE. They are part of the human mind.
In order to create complex Yes/no questions: a. Children rely on semantics b. They rely on syntax c. They tend to rely on both d. They don’t adhere to any of them
b. They rely on syntax
True or False? Children take into account the syntactic rules, and the rules of structure-dependence to produce simple and complex yes/no questions.
TRUE
What type of questions demonstrated the problem with the structure-independent hypothesis?
Questions with relative clauses
What did the Jaba Experiment No. 2 demonstrate about semantics?
Children were impervious to the semantic features of the subject noun phrases.
What is an expletive?
Semantically empty dummy subjects without inherent reference.
TRUE OR FALSE? All the principles of the UG should emerge early in the course of development.
TRUE
A structure-independent hypothesis operates on sentences as ……………..
Strings of words
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