1) the derivational theory of complexity held that the psychological complexity of a
sentence was closely related to the:
a.number of phrase-structure rules in its derivation
b.number of transformational rules in its derivation
c.number of recursions in its derivation
d.number of particle movements in its derivation
2) research on the relationship between object permanence and the acquisition of the
words more and allgone was based on the hypothesis that object permanence should
occur _____ the acquisition of these words.
a.before
b.the same time as
c.after
d.independently of
3) when children produce utterances such as where i should put it? they have evidently
failed to master the _____ transformational rule
a.wh- preposing
b.negation
c.noun phrase-auxiliary inversion
d.passive
4) the right hemisphere appears to be better than the left at:
a.interpreting conversational remarks in a pragmatically appropriate manner
b.automatically activating lexical information
c.preserving discourse coherence
d.all of the above
5) bialystok et al (2004) showed that _________ bilinguals performed ________ than
monolinguals on the simon task.
a.young, better
b.older, better
c.young, worse
d.older, worse
6) in the discussion of the evolution of language, the continuity position holds that:
a.there is no distinction between language and other forms of animal communication
b.language evolved gradually in a series of steps
c.language evolved abruptly, in a single step
d.language evolved even though it did not have survival value initially
7) the model of lexical access that was specifically designed to account for auditory
word recognition was the:
a.spreading activation model
b.logogen model
c.cohort model
d.search mode
8) bates, camaioni, and volterra (1975) observed that 9-month-old carlotta began
looking into her mothers face when taking an object from her. bates et al interpreted this
to mean that carlotta had:
a.learned that looking at an adult can be part of a request
b.learned how to be defiant
c.discovered that she didnt have to say please
d.understood that her mother would be upset at having an object taken from her
9) nelson (1973) found that ________ and ________ were two distinct strategies
children tended to use for learning language:
a.syntactic, positional
b.ostensive, pragmatic
c.original, basic
d.referential, expressive
10) in the metaphor billboards are warts on the landscape, the vehicle is:
a.billboards
b.warts
c.landscape
d.ugly protrusions on some surface