1) the phenomenon of producing more than one speech sound at a time is called:
a.coarticulation
b.context-conditioned variation
c.parallel transmission
d.formant interaction
2) mehler et al (1988) showed that infants can distinguish intonational contours in their
maternal language and those in another language by:
a.one year
b.six months
c.two months
d.four days
3) including _______ complicates estimation of the size of the mental lexicon.
a.syntax
b.grammar
c.morphology
d.phonology
4) the process by which we activate meanings from the internal lexicon is called:
a.language comprehension
b.lexical access
c.morphological analysis
d. parsing
5) gestures that in normal speech are used to highlight an aspect of a conversation are
called:
a.interactive
b.receptive
c.paragrammatic
d.referential
6) agrammatic patients seem to have particular difficulty with:
a.word order
b.grammatical agreement of noun and verb
c.closed-class words
d.comprehension, as opposed to speaking
7) rozin et al (1974) showed kindergarten children short words such as mow, and long
words such as motorcycle. _____% of the children were able to identify the short word.
a.0
b.10
c.90
d.95
8) the consonants /b/, /d/, and /g/ differ in their ________
a.manner of articulation
b.place of articulation
c.frication
d.voicing
9) in the metaphor billboards are warts on the landscape, the tenor is:
a.billboards
b.warts
c.landscape
d.ugly protrusions on some surface
10) when asked to name a long word, children 4-5 years old might respond with a word
such as train. this demonstrates that children:
a.do not understand dimensions, such as long and short
b.dont yet separate words from their referents
c.have a bias toward naming things that move, regardless of the question
d.dont follow conversational rules, and so their responses typically dont relate to the
question asked them.
11) memory for _______ shows the least forgetting over time.
a.surface text
b.verbatim representation
c.situations
d.propositions
12) the system of rules that governs how different forms of the same word may be used
convey different shades of meaning is referred to as:
a.phonology
b.morphology
c.syntax
d.semantics
13) according to the text, the most likely reason why children make phonological errors
is that:
a.they simply cannot produce the sounds correctly
b.they cannot discriminate perceptually between the various sounds
c.the demands of spontaneous speech overload their information processing capacity
d.they prefer gesturing to speech
14) in chomskys view (1981), a noun is the most essential component of a noun phrase,
and is referred to as:
a.the induction
b.the subset
c.the head parameter
d.the default
15) just and carpenter (1992) found evidence that:
a.individual differences in working memory capacity affect language processing
abilities
b.working memory size is the same for all individuals and cannot account for
differences in language abilities
c.working memory size varies across individuals but does not affect language
comprehension
d.individuals with smaller working memories are paradoxically able to process
language more efficiently
16) a tool to measure the associative meanings of words is:
a.the semantic differential
b.the associative chain
c.longitudinal investigation
d.discontinuous constituent