7. In a typical week, approximately how many hours do you spend reading?
(Include time reading novels, newspapers, magazines, course books, poetry, blogs, e-mails, instruction manuals – any written matter.)
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1. Vervet monkeys learn their alarm calls like we learn to speak.
","","70","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","12","369483","0.0-10.0-1.0","xwya8z","368.3950000000186","","","2. Human language is acquired through learning.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","13","369753","0.0-10.0-2.0","xwya8z","268.3950000000186","","","3. Feral children do not acquire language.
","","70","para_question","wild","false" +"html-keyboard-response","14","370093","0.0-10.0-3.0","xwya8z","338.11000000010245","","","4. Mowgli was abandoned by his parents.
","","84","para_question","wild","false" +"html-keyboard-response","15","370583","0.0-10.0-4.0","xwya8z","488.0850000001956","","","5. Mowgli grew up in the Indian jungle.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","16","371243","0.0-10.0-5.0","xwya8z","657.7449999999371","","","6. Victor was found at the age of 12.
","","70","para_question","wild","false" +"html-keyboard-response","17","371613","0.0-10.0-6.0","xwya8z","368.375","","","7. A French physician spent about 5 years teaching Victor to speak.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","18","371913","0.0-10.0-7.0","xwya8z","297.7849999999744","","","8. It took Victor a very long time to learn to speak properly.
","","70","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","19","372253","0.0-10.0-8.0","xwya8z","338.1099999998696","","","9. Tarzan did not speak very fluently.
","","84","para_question","wild","false" +"html-keyboard-response","20","376183","0.0-10.0-9.0","xwya8z","3928.319999999949","","","10. Children do not need human contact to learn to speak.
","","70","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","21","376423","0.0-10.0-10.0","xwya8z","237.39000000001397","","","11. After a certain age, we lose our initial language learning ability.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","22","376623","0.0-10.0-11.0","xwya8z","198.21000000002095","","","12. Languages do not vary much across cultural contexts.
","","70","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","23","376843","0.0-10.0-12.0","xwya8z","217.84999999997672","","","13. When one language is spoken by different societies, it will vary.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","24","377023","0.0-10.0-13.0","xwya8z","177.7500000000582","","","14. George Bernard Shaw famously observed that England and America are two countries with two separate languages.
","","84","para_question","wild","false" +"html-keyboard-response","25","377183","0.0-10.0-14.0","xwya8z","157.80999999988126","","","15. The cultural context is essential for the development of human language.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","26","377353","0.0-10.0-15.0","xwya8z","168.2849999999744","","","16. Baleen whales produce song.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","27","377523","0.0-10.0-16.0","xwya8z","167.73999999981606","","","17. Whales use high frequency whistles for communication and hunting.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","28","377683","0.0-10.0-17.0","xwya8z","158.35999999992782","","","18. Smell is reduced in air compared to water.
","","84","para_question","wild","false" +"html-keyboard-response","29","377853","0.0-10.0-18.0","xwya8z","168.11999999982072","","","19. Whales have very good hearing.
","","84","para_question","wild","true" +"html-keyboard-response","30","378034","0.0-10.0-19.0","xwya8z","178.64999999979045","","","20. Beluga whales inhabit the Indian Ocean.
","","84","para_question","wild","false" +"html-keyboard-response","31","378213","0.0-10.0-20.0","xwya8z","177.82499999995343","","","21. The human ear and the ear of the Beluga whale have similar ranges.
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1. Sequoyah was a Cherokee diplomat.
","","70","hypo_question","cherokee","false" +"html-keyboard-response","36","482425","0.0-13.0-1.0","xwya8z","268.22999999986496","","","2. Sequoyah could write in English and Hebrew.
","","84","hypo_question","cherokee","false" +"html-keyboard-response","37","482644","0.0-13.0-2.0","xwya8z","217.96500000008382","","","3. The writing system developed by Sequoyah consisted of about 85 symbols.
","","70","hypo_question","cherokee","false" +"html-keyboard-response","38","482855","0.0-13.0-3.0","xwya8z","208.7050000000163","","","4. The tribal elders were initially skeptical about the writing system.
","","84","hypo_question","cherokee","true" +"html-keyboard-response","39","483105","0.0-13.0-4.0","xwya8z","248.66500000009546","","","5. Because the other tribal members did not like the new writing system, it took them 12 years to learn it.
","","70","hypo_question","cherokee","true" +"html-keyboard-response","40","483304","0.0-13.0-5.0","xwya8z","198.63000000006286","","","6. After the Cherokee nation was destroyed, the survivors were deported to Oklahoma.
","","70","hypo_question","cherokee","false" +"html-keyboard-response","41","483475","0.0-13.0-6.0","xwya8z","168.7850000000908","","","7. Sequoyah’s writing system used English letters adding Greek letters instead of numerals.
","","70","hypo_question","cherokee","true" +"html-keyboard-response","42","483644","0.0-13.0-7.0","xwya8z","168.44500000000698","","","8. The Cherokee alphabet kept the sound values of the original letters.
","","70","hypo_question","cherokee","true" +"html-keyboard-response","43","483905","0.0-13.0-8.0","xwya8z","259.09499999991385","","","9. Today, all Cherokee adults are literate in English as well as the writing system developed by Sequoyah.
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1. Most people do not think that speech perception is a very mysterious process.
","","70","hypo_question","perception","false" +"html-keyboard-response","48","588371","0.0-16.0-1.0","xwya8z","238.81499999994412","","","2. Speech perception requires a lot of effort.
","","84","hypo_question","perception","false" +"html-keyboard-response","49","588581","0.0-16.0-2.0","xwya8z","208.60499999998137","","","3. We hear sounds and immediately understand their meanings.
","","70","hypo_question","perception","false" +"html-keyboard-response","50","588771","0.0-16.0-3.0","xwya8z","188.6149999999907","","","4. The process that converts sound to meaning is not very fast.
","","70","hypo_question","perception","true" +"html-keyboard-response","51","588961","0.0-16.0-4.0","xwya8z","188.6600000000326","","","5. It is hard to believe that learning plays a role in speech perception.
","","84","hypo_question","perception","true" +"html-keyboard-response","52","589231","0.0-16.0-5.0","xwya8z","268.3649999999907","","","6. Computers are better than humans at speech perception.
","","84","hypo_question","perception","false" +"html-keyboard-response","53","589441","0.0-16.0-6.0","xwya8z","208.78000000002794","","","7. Linguists know that speech perception is a lot more complex than it appears.
","","84","hypo_question","perception","true" +"html-keyboard-response","54","589611","0.0-16.0-7.0","xwya8z","168.76500000013039","","","8. Listening to an unfamiliar language is difficult even when we know the words.
","","84","hypo_question","perception","true" +"html-keyboard-response","55","590041","0.0-16.0-8.0","xwya8z","428.2249999998603","","","9. It is easy to tell when a word ends and the next one begins in a foreign language.
","","84","hypo_question","perception","false" +"html-keyboard-response","56","590612","0.0-16.0-9.0","xwya8z","568.8749999998836","","","10. English people speak slower than speakers of most other languages.
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1. Many people think that growing up with two languages is a burden.
","","70","para_question","bilingual","false" +"html-keyboard-response","61","759431","0.0-19.0-1.0","xwya8z","228.5","","","2. Monolingualism is the biological norm.
","","84","para_question","bilingual","false" +"html-keyboard-response","62","759651","0.0-19.0-2.0","xwya8z","218.35999999998603","","","3. Monolinguals and bilinguals go through the same developmental milestones when learning to speak.
","","70","para_question","bilingual","false" +"html-keyboard-response","63","759851","0.0-19.0-3.0","xwya8z","198.63999999989755","","","4. Bilinguals would have more difficulties at learning languages if the brain were set up for one language.
","","84","para_question","bilingual","true" +"html-keyboard-response","64","760071","0.0-19.0-4.0","xwya8z","218.6899999998277","","","5. Bilinguals acquire language at the same pace as monolinguals.
","","70","para_question","bilingual","false" +"html-keyboard-response","65","760261","0.0-19.0-5.0","xwya8z","188.51000000024214","","","6. The brain has no difficulties with more than one language.
","","70","para_question","bilingual","false" +"html-keyboard-response","66","760441","0.0-19.0-6.0","xwya8z","178.45999999984633","","","7. Petito and her team examined deaf children of hearing parents.
","","70","para_question","bilingual","true" +"html-keyboard-response","67","760600","0.0-19.0-7.0","xwya8z","158.33500000007916","","","8. Sign-spoken bilinguals are ideal for testing whether there are any delays in bilingual language acquisition.
","","70","para_question","bilingual","false" +"html-keyboard-response","68","760780","0.0-19.0-8.0","xwya8z","178.66499999992084","","","9. Learning signed and spoken languages follows different developmental timetables.
","","84","para_question","bilingual","false" +"html-keyboard-response","69","761011","0.0-19.0-9.0","xwya8z","223.66499999992084","","","10. Babies learning sign language skip the phase of babbling.
","","70","para_question","bilingual","true" +"html-keyboard-response","70","761221","0.0-19.0-10.0","xwya8z","208.59500000008848","","","11. According to Petito, there are no rhythmical patterns unique to language.
","","84","para_question","bilingual","false" +"html-keyboard-response","71","761481","0.0-19.0-11.0","xwya8z","258.0699999999488","","","12. Spoken and signed language share the same structural patterns.
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1. Many people think that language is innate.
","","70","para_question","instinct","false" +"html-keyboard-response","76","981636","0.0-22.0-1.0","xwya8z","718.4999999998836","","","2. Nineteenth century travelers found several tribes without a language.
","","70","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","77","981956","0.0-22.0-2.0","xwya8z","318.5549999998184","","","3. Both language and Coca Cola are universal today.
","","84","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","78","982506","0.0-22.0-3.0","xwya8z","548.180000000284","","","4. Why we eat with our hands rather than our feet can be explained by an instinct.
","","70","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","79","982856","0.0-22.0-4.0","xwya8z","348.7049999999581","","","5. It is likely that language was invented more than once.
","","84","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","80","984326","0.0-22.0-5.0","xwya8z","1468.6200000001118","","","6. Some languages do not have a word for ‘water’.
","","84","para_question","instinct","false" +"html-keyboard-response","81","985006","0.0-22.0-6.0","xwya8z","678.2149999999674","","","7. Language entrenches itself in a culture as parents speak to their children and children imitate their parents.
","","84","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","82","985396","0.0-22.0-7.0","xwya8z","388.8350000001956","","","8. Once language was invented, it could spread to other cultures.
","","70","para_question","instinct","false" +"html-keyboard-response","83","985726","0.0-22.0-8.0","xwya8z","328.4249999996973","","","9. General learning strategies slowed down the spreading of language.
","","70","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","84","986026","0.0-22.0-9.0","xwya8z","298.37500000034925","","","10. Studying how particular languages developed does not help us to find the origin of language.
","","84","para_question","instinct","false" +"html-keyboard-response","85","986796","0.0-22.0-10.0","xwya8z","768.3499999997439","","","11. Historical linguists can trace modern languages back to earlier ones.
","","84","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","86","987486","0.0-22.0-11.0","xwya8z","688.5000000002328","","","12. We can discover the origin of language by studying language change.
","","70","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","87","987706","0.0-22.0-12.0","xwya8z","218.36999999999534","","","13. The history of the slave trade provides some clues about the origin of language.
","","84","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","88","987906","0.0-22.0-13.0","xwya8z","198.09499999973923","","","14. Plantation masters never mixed slaves of different origins.
","","70","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","89","987958","0.0-22.0-14.0","xwya8z","49.99500000034459","","","15. Pidgins can develop when speakers of many different languages need to interact and work together.
","","84","para_question","instinct","true" +"html-keyboard-response","90","988166","0.0-22.0-15.0","xwya8z","207.31999999994878","","","16. Pidgins consist of sentences with very complicated structures.
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1. The American military hired Najavo speakers in 1942.
","","84","hypo_question","navajo","true" +"html-keyboard-response","95","1111473","0.0-25.0-1.0","xwya8z","258.40500000002794","","","2. It was very unlikely that the Japanese could translate the Navajo messages into Japanese.
","","70","hypo_question","navajo","false" +"html-keyboard-response","96","1111693","0.0-25.0-2.0","xwya8z","218.2699999997858","","","3. The code was kept in a Navajo code book.
","","84","hypo_question","navajo","false" +"html-keyboard-response","97","1111913","0.0-25.0-3.0","xwya8z","218.339999999851","","","4. Some Japanese spoke Navajo with an almost native accent.
","","70","hypo_question","navajo","true" +"html-keyboard-response","98","1112133","0.0-25.0-4.0","xwya8z","216.6450000004843","","","5. Eventually, the code talkers were provided with their own bodyguards.
","","84","hypo_question","navajo","true" +"html-keyboard-response","99","1112343","0.0-25.0-5.0","xwya8z","208.6149999999907","","","6. Navajo words for birds and fish were used for airplanes and warships.
","","70","hypo_question","navajo","false" +"html-keyboard-response","100","1112582","0.0-25.0-6.0","xwya8z","238.36499999975786","","","7. Some words were conveyed letter by letter in French.
","","84","hypo_question","navajo","false" +"html-keyboard-response","101","1112773","0.0-25.0-7.0","xwya8z","188.6149999999907","","","8. The Americans used English words for spelling the initial letters.
","","84","hypo_question","navajo","false" +"html-keyboard-response","102","1112963","0.0-25.0-8.0","xwya8z","188.38499999977648","","","9. The most common letters had four or five Navajo counterparts.
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