1) according to fromkins model, what is the correct order of stages of production?
a.syntactic structure, content words, phonetic segments, intonation contour
b..content words, syntactic structure, phonetic segments, intonation contour
c.syntactic structure, intonation contour, content words, phonetic segment
d.content words, syntactic structure, intonation contour, phonetic segments
2) gleitman, gleitman, and shipley (1972) found that childrens first attempts to judge the
acceptability of sentences focused on:
a.simple, declarative sentences
b.wh- questions
c.semantic factors
d.holophrases
3) chomskys claim regarding child language acquisition was that:
a.it cannot be explained simply in terms of the language that children hear
b.it requires a more sophisticated form of shaping than behaviorists claim
c.it is largely tacit rather than explicit
d.children require explicit grammatical instruction from parents or caregivers to learn
the rules of language
4) berlin and kay (1969) referred to the most representative basic colors (such as blue)
as:
a.referential
b.primary
c.absolute
d.focal
5) a processing model in which higher-level information may influence processing at
the lower levels is called a _____ model.
a.bottom-up
b.automatic
c.top-down
d.controlled
6) according to duncan (1972), which of the following is not a turn-yielding cue?
a.a drop in pitch
b.continued use of hand gestures
c.use of stereotyped expressions, such as you know
d.completion of a grammatical clause
7) a subject has to immediately respond to a particular sound in a:
a.reading span task
b.semantic verification task
c.phoneme-monitoring task
d.autonomous search task
8) sparrow and robin are _____ of bird.
a.hypernyms
b.coordinates
c.synonyms
d.hyponyms
9) english sentences typically obey the _____ order.
a.subject-object-verb
b.verb-object-subject
c.object-verb-subject
d.subject-verb-object
10) the lexical bias effect:
a.refers to the fact that speech errors more commonly result in words than in nonwords
b.is inconsistent with the hypothesis that we covertly edit our utterances on semantic
grounds
c.provides support for fromkins model of speech production
d.provides support for a freudian explanation of speech errors