1) studies of the comprehension of indirect speech acts have led to the conclusion that:
a.indirect speech acts are easier to comprehend than direct speech acts
b.indirect speech acts are harder to comprehend than direct speech acts
c.indirect speech acts are no easier or harder to comprehend than direct speech acts
when presented in an appropriate context
d.indirect speech acts do not always initiate a response
2) when presented with a picture of a spoon in her left visual field, the split brain
patient:
a.saw the spoon, but could not name it
b.named the spoon but was unable to pick it up
c.saw the spoon and named it accurately
d.saw the spoon, but called it a pencil
3) mcgurk and macdonald (1976) found that when a speakers lips produce the
syllable /ga/ while an audio tape of the sound /ba/ is played, listeners hear the fused
sound as:
a./ga/
b./ba/
c./da/
d.a nonspeech chirp
4) what conclusion can be drawn from the texts discussion of the ali sentence?
a.we use serial processing when encountering ambiguous words
b.we use controlled processing to comprehend ambiguous sentences
c.we use top-down processing to comprehend ambiguous sentences
d.our intuitions regarding sentence comprehension are not always accurate
5) which of the following was not a focus of the daneman and carpenter (1980) study?
a.examining tradeoffs between storage and processing functions of working memory
b.examining individual differences in the size of working memory
c.measuring the relationship between the size of working memory and sat scores
d.measuring speed/accuracy tradeoffs in reading complex text passages
6) semantics deals with:
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
7) the strong form of the motherese hypothesis states that:
a.motherese is necessary but not sufficient for language to develop properly
b.motherese is necessary and sufficient for language to develop properly
c.motherese is not necessary for language development if other forms of child-directed
behavior are used
d.motherese is neigher necessary or sufficient for language to develop properly
8) which of the following is a conceptual metaphor?
a.love is a journey
b.our love is a bumpy rollercoaster ride
c.our love is full of ups and downs
d.all of the above
9) most of the research on bilingual language acquisition comes from:
a.studies of children who moved from one language community to another
b.studies of adults who moved from one language community to another
c.case studies based on transcripts kept by researchers
d.case studies based on diaries kept by parents
10) experiments that show that subjects use transformational rules and structures when
processing sentences provide evidence for:
a.reciprocity
b.linguistic productivity
c.deep structure ambiguity
d.the psychological reality of grammar
11) evoked potentials are measures of:
a.how well a patient will recover from stroke
b.muscle activity anywhere in the human body
c.brain activity after presentation of a stimulus
d.the true linguistic abilities of patients who have difficulty producing speech
12) for speech processing to be modular it must:
a.be slow
b.share properties with general auditory processing
c.be affected by feedback
d.be domain specific
13) cross-linguistic studies have revealed:
a.more about the rules of individual language than about general cognitive development
b.more about the cognitive functioning of individual children studied than about general
linguistic processes
c.much about cognitive functioning and language strategies
d.so few differences in how children across cultures acquire language that it is more
fruitful to study children within any single culture.
14) which is not true of neural network models?
a.they are based on patterns of excitatory and inhibitory neural activity.
b.they are useful for modeling cognitive processes.
c.they are an important alternative to serial models of processing.
d.they have not yet been shown to be useful for modeling language processes.
15) the interdisciplinary field that studies the mind and mental processes is called:
a.psycholinguistics
b.philosophy
c.cognitive science
d.linguistics
16) anomalous suspense occurs when:
a.we find a novel suspenseful even when we know how it turns out
b.we prefer unpredictable stories over more predictable ones
c.stories elicit cognitive reactions rather than emotional ones
d.the title of a story conflicts with the story content