1) baddeley, gathercole, and papagno (1998) used a _______ test to study the
relationship between working memory and vocabulary development in children.
a.memory span
b.digit span
c.reading comprehension
d.deferred imitation
2) studies of mispronunciation detection have found that restorations are:
a.more fluent than exact repetitions
b.more common than exact repetition
c.less common than exact repetitions
d.less fluent than exact repetitions
3) clark (1996) describes conversation in terms of:
a.a set of unrelated layers, each of which is governed by a specific system of turn-taking
rules
b.a set of unrelated layers, whose relationship is understood by virtue of common
knowledge of conversational participants
c.a set of related layers which have to clearly connect to each other
d.a set of related, but independent layers, each of which could be comprehended
without reference to any other layer
4) _______ connects individual sentences and ideas in a discourse.
a.ellipsis
b.reference
c.macrostructure
d.microstructure
5) we are more likely to pronounce the as thiy (rhymes with see) as opposed to thuh
(rhymes with the first syllable in about) when we are:
a.more closely monitoring our speech
b.having problems with some aspect of our speech production
c.speaking more fluently
d.all of the above
6) individuals who have undergone removal of the left hemisphere prior to speech:
a.never develop language at all
b.show very subtle language deficits
c.eventually develop normal language
d.show deficits in semantic processing
7) our organized knowledge of words, concepts, symbols, and objects is called:
a.episodic memory
b.semantic memory
c.permanent memory
d.working memory
8) the superiority of asian children in acquiring early counting skills can be attributed
to:
a.more rigorous teaching standards
b.genetic factors
c.strategies for teaching place value
d.a higher cultural regard for mathematics
9) in contrast with transformational grammar, lexical theories place:
a.greater emphasis on constituent structure
b.greater emphasis on individual words
c.greater emphasis on syntax
d.greater emphasis on morphology
10) phrases that reference object coordinates, as in front of the post or to the left of her
are examples of _____ spatial terms.
a.absolute
b.conditional
c.relative
d.intrinsic
11) consonants that are articulated at the lips are called _____ consonants.
a.alveolar
b.stop
c. bilabial
d.fricative
12) a task in which participants are presented with statements such as an a is a b and are
asked to determine as quickly as possible whether the sentence is true or false is called
a _____ task.
a.typicality
b.semantic verification
c.hierarchical network
d.category-size
13) _____ terms indicate the relationship between an object in space and a person.
a.absolute
b.conditional
c.relative
d.intrinsic
14) the notion that a childs first language (l1) influences acquisition of a second
language (l2) is referred to as language ___________:
a.interference
b.borrowing
c.sequence
d.transfer
15) which of the following has not been proposed to explain language origins?
a.spoken language evolved from gestures
b.spoken language evolved from primitive vocalizations, such as grunts and danger
calls
c.spoken language evolved from birdsong
d.spoken language evolved as a byproduct of developing non-linguistic cognitive
processes