Chapter 9 Language and Brain

1. ________ deals with how language is acquired, understood, and produced.

A. Sociolinguistics

B. Psycholinguistics

C. Neurolinguistics

D. Anthropological linguistics

2. The left hemisphere of human brain is responsible for the functions of ________.

A. language and speech

B. calculation

C. analytic reasoning and associative thought

D. all of the above

3. ________ refers to the localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a particular hemisphere of the brain.

A. Language lateralization

B. Brain lateralization

C. Right ear advantage

D. None of the above

4. Linguistic ________ is the brain’s neurological specialization for language.

A. determinism

B. relativism

C. competence

D. lateralization

5. The ________ age for the acquisition of the first language coincides with the period of brain lateralization.

A. young

B. old

C. critical

D. flexible

答案(反白可见)：B D B D C