1) later chimp language studies focused on:
a.teaching chimps a simpler form of signing
b.whether chimps could teach signs to younger chimps without human intervention
c.socializing chimps so that they have a more natural need for communication
d.teaching chimps to sign in the wild
2) an auxiliary language that arises when speakers of several mutually unintelligible
languages are in close contact defines a:
a.creole
b.bioprogram
c.pidgin
d.subdialect
3) which relation is the earliest to occur in one-word speech?
a.object
b.possessor
c.location
d.naming
4) memories of childhood vacations are stored in:
a.semantic memory
b.working memory
c.episodic memory
d.secondary memory
5) in the priming study of meyer and schvaneveldt (1971), the time needed to classify a
target (such as butter) as either a word or a nonword varied with:
a.the number of times they were presented with the word
b.the concreteness of the words
c.the presentation of a semantically related word just prior to the target
d.the target words frequency
6) an example given in the text is when a diner asks his companion, could i use one of
your forks? when the waitress is within earshot. although the statement is directly
addressed to the dinner companion, it may also be seen as directed to a(n):
a.addressee
b.eavesdropper
c.overhearer
d.side participant
7) in the sentence john found a bat in the attic, the word bat is:
a.semantically ambiguous
b.lexically ambiguous
c.semantically complex
d. lexically autonomous
8) early exposure is _________ condition for normal language development.
a. a necessary and sufficient
b.neither necessary nor sufficient
c.a sufficient
d.a necessary but not a sufficient
9) phonemic restoration and mispronunciation studies reveal the effects of __________
information in speech processing.
a.bottom-up
b.top-down
c.invariant
d.prosodic
10) studies of the processing of episodes have found that:
a.we tend to remember episodes in an all-or-none fashion
b.reading times are fastest at the beginnings and ends of episodes
c.we remember reactions and goals better than attempts and outcomes
d.readers are oblivious to the emotional responses of characters in stories
11) phonology refers to:
a.the grammatical arrangement of words within the sentence
b.the system of sounds in a language
c.the meanings of words and sentences
d.the social rules involved in language use
12) a research investigation in which data are collected repeatedly over periods of time
is called a:
a.case study
b.longitudinal study
c.pragmatic study
d.cross-disciplinary study
13) which of the following statements most accurately reflects the degree of iconicity
and arbitrariness in american sign language (asl)?
a.asl is a more arbitrary language than english
b.asl is a more iconic language than english, but the degree of iconicity in asl has
declined over the past 200 years
c.asl and english do not differ in arbitrariness
d.asl and english do not differ in iconicity
14) an individual who is openly present but does not participate in a conversation is
called a(n):
a.eavesdropper
b.participant
c. overhearer
d.side participant
15) in sera et al.s (2002) study of gender marking, ________ children were more likely
to assign a voice to an object based on the grammatical gender of the object:
a.english
b.german
c.french
d.mayan