1) when children acquire two languages at the same time, their bilingualism is referred
to as:
a.sequential
b.simultaneous
c.mutual
d.secondary
2) in a lexical decision experiment, a participant must decide:
a.if a word is ambiguous or not
b.if a word is a content word or a function word
c.what syntactic category a word belongs to
d.whether a letter string is a word
3) a freudian explanation of speech errors is that:
a.speech is produced in separate stages, each devoted to a single level of linguistic
analysis
b.multiple speech plans occur simultaneously and plans compete for dominance
c.multiple speech plans occur, but speech errors solely represent conflict at the
articulatory level
d.there is only one speech plan; speech errors are used to mask a speakers disturbing
thoughts.
4) inferences that are drawn during discourse comprehension:
a.reflect the imaginative contribution of skilled readers
b.are the result of recall errors
c.are necessary for processing discourse effectively
d. are rarely drawn when reading printed material
5) whorf was chiefly concerned with:
a.cross-cultural weather terms
b.how individuals thought and spoke about dangerous situations
c.grammatical differences among languages
d.language and intelligence
6) a theory of language capable of specifying acceptable and unacceptable sequences in
a language is said to have:
a.explanatory adequacy
b.descriptive adequacy
c.observational adequacy
d.linguistic productivity
7) carroll and casagrande (1958) examined form perception in navaho-speaking
children and english-speaking children. they found that:
a. navaho-speaking children focused more on form than color than the english-speaking
children did
b. english-speaking children focused more on form than color than the navaho-speaking
children
c.navaho-speaking children on a reservation focused more on form than color than
english-speaking children on the reservation, but not more so than the english-speaking
suburban children
d.there were no differences in form perception between english-speaking and
navaho-speaking children
8) in sum, the research on cross-linguistic color, number, object, and spatial naming:
a.provides no support for whorfs hypothesis
b.fully supports whorfs hypothesis
c.provides some support for whorfs hypothesis
d.should not be evaluated relative to a whorfian framework
9) a single-word utterance that is used by children to express more than the meaning
attributed to that single word by adults is called a(n):
a.holophrase
b.overextension
c.semantic relation
d.deictic utterance
10) the view that we use all available information–syntactic, lexical, discourse, and so
on–in our initial parsing of a sentence defines the ________ model of parsing.
a.modular
b.minimal attachment
c.constraint-based
d.lexical
11) aphasia refers to:
a.any type of brain damage
b.any language disorder resulting from brain damage
c.any type of language disorder
d.any language disorder resulting specifically from stroke
12) the relationship between picked and up in the sentence george picked the baby up
was seen as evidence against which theory?
a.semantic differential
b.associative chain
c.shaping
d.discontinuous constituent
13) which of the following is not a mass noun?
a.air
b.water
c.rain
d.solid
14) the existence of patients with intact syntactic skills who have deficits in semantic
knowledge refutes the notion that:
a.universal grammar exists
b.there is a distinction between linguistic competence and performance
c.normal cognitive development is necessary for language development
d.there is a critical age for language learning
15) the results of fosss phoneme-monitoring study suggested that:
a.we access the meanings of an ambiguous word all at once
b.we access the meanings of an ambiguous word one at a time
c.we only access multiple meanings in a laboratory setting
d.we can consciously block activation of multiple meanings of ambiguous words