1) the method of inducing subjects to produce errors such as barn door after producing
sequences such as bell dark and bean deck, and darn bore is known as the
_______________ technique:
a.lexical bias
b.production cycle
c.anticipatory retracing
d.phonological bias
2) patients who can process visual language but not auditory language are said to have:
a.conduction aphasia
b.pure-word deafness
c.alexia
d.aggrammatism
3) gazzaniga and hillyard (1971) found that the right hemisphere of split-brain patients
adequately dealt with which grammatical distinction?
a.present versus future
b.singular versus plural
c.affirmative versus negative
d.all of the above
4) johnson and newport (1989) studied native korean and chinese speakers who had
immigrated to the united states between 3 and 39 years of age. the subjects judged
whether strings of english words were sentences or not. the study showed that those
who arrived in the us between _____ years old had the highest grammatical scores.
a.3 and 7
b.8 and 10
c.11 and 15
d.16 and 39
5) the words blue and blew are:
a.allophones
b.homophones
c.logographs
d.suprasegmentals
6) the phrases we use to open conversation serve to:
a.get a listeners attention and establish a conversational leader
b.get a listeners attention and make a reference to the relationship to the conversational
partner
c.get a listeners attention and establish a turn-taking sequence
d.get a listeners attention and justify ending contact
7) childrens overregularizations of grammatical morphemes corresponds to which
operating principle?
a.pay attention to the ends of words
b.avoid interruption or rearrangement of linguistic units
c.pay attention to the order of words and morphemes
d.avoid exceptions
8) which is not a specialty of the right hemisphere?
a.visuospatial functions
b.facial recognition
c.holistic tasks
d.language processing
9) which of the following results did sachs (1967) obtain regarding the retention of
sentence meaning and form?
a.over time form deteriorated; meaning remained stable
b.over time both form and meaning deteriorated
c.over time both form and meaning remained stable
d.over time meaning deteriorated; form remained stable
10) phoneme monitoring latencies following the presentation of a lexically ambiguous
word:
a.are no different than after an unambiguous word
b.are greater than after unambiguous words, but only very briefly
c.depend upon whether the ambiguous word is concrete or abstract
d.all of the above
11) studies of metaphor comprehension converge on the conclusion that comprehension
of metaphorical sentences is _____ comprehension of literal sentences.
a.harder than
b.fundamentally similar to
c. easier than
d.dependent on an initial literal interpretation of
12) __________refers to a dissociation between the brains visual regions and language
areas.
a.agraphia
b.pure word deafness
c.alexia
d.aggrammatism
13) in dichotic listening studies, split-brain patients show _____ right-ear advantages
for speech stimuli compared with normal individuals.
a.exaggerated
b.equal
c.diminished
d.intermittent
14) the strongest evidence for independence of planning units is that:
a.speakers never produce more than one error in the same sentence
b.no two speakers have ever made the same speech error
c.speakers tend to make mistakes at a single stage, leaving the rest of the utterance
intact
d.speakers tend to make mistakes at a single stage, which causes predictable errors at all
other stages.
15) the developmental process of assigning words to word classes is called:
a.fast mapping
b.categorical perception
c.ostensive definition
d.referential learning
16) which of the following are thematic roles in a sentence?
a.tenor and ground
b.agent and recipient
c.locutionary act and illocutionary force
d.relation and manner
17) studies of comprehension of humor have shown that:
a.patients with either right- or left-hemisphere damage have difficulty processing humor
b.patients with right-hemisphere damage have greater difficulty than those with
left-hemisphere damage
c.patients with left-hemisphere damage have greater difficulty than those with
right-hemisphere damage
d.the ability to process humor remains intact despite damage to either hemisphere