1) intersection search refers to the process of:
a.activating multiple meanings of a word in parallel
b.searching for information relevant to both items in a semantic verification task
c.the process of activating words base on their initial consonant
d.deciding whether a string of letters is a word
2) a _________ occurs when children adopt a _______as their native language.
a.dialect, creole
b.pidgin, dialect
c.creole, pidgin
d.creole, dialect
3) modular views of parsing claim that:
a.syntax is processed before semantics and pragmatics
b.semantics and pragmatics are processed before syntax
c.syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are processed simultaneously
d.all of the above
4) when closing conversations, we are likely to signal the end of a conversation by
a.summarizing the content of the conversation
b.justifying ending contact at this time
c.expressing pleasure about one’s conversational partner
d.planning for future contact
5) reformulation in therapeutic discourse refers to:
a.clients rephrasing their thoughts into clearer form
b. therapists transforming client discourse into a specific problem
c.therapists repeating client statements in psychological jargon
d.therapists applying a specific clinical term to a clients problem or symptoms
6) in yucatec, the plural morpheme:
a.is used obligatorily with animate and discrete referents
b.is used optionally with animate and discrete referents
c.is used optionally with animate but not discrete referents
d.is used obligatorily with animate but not discrete referents
7) in the speech error it certainly run outs fast, the final phoneme in outs
a.is /s/, which supports the notion that affix stage of production precedes the phonetic
stage
b. is /z/, which supports the notion that the affix stage of production precedes the
phonetic stage
c.is /s/, which refutes the notion that the affix stage of production precedes the phonetic
stage
d.is /z/, which refutes the notion that the affix stage of production precedes the phonetic
stage
8) in split brain patients, the corpus callosum was surgically severed:
a.to study how each hemisphere operates independently
b.to relieve severe depression
c.to control severe epilepsy
d.to control parkinsons disease
9) the process of assigning elements of the surface structure to linguistic categories is
referred to as:
a.parsing
b.sentence interpretation
c.the immediacy principle
d.the late closure strategy
10) cross-cultural investigations of story recall have found that:
a.cultures differ significantly in what constitutes a good story
b.recall patterns are very similar across cultures
c.oral cultures tend to prefer shorter stories
d. children in all cultures recalled stories better than adults
11) if two distinct phrase markers can be derived for a single sentence, the sentence is
said to be:
a.declarative
b.recursive
c.ambiguous
d.arbitrary
12) the sentence, the florist who sent the flowers was very pleased is grammatical
because it contains a(n):
a.embedded relative clause
b.proposition
c.conceptual metaphor
d.late closure
13) if one language has strict word order and a second language has flexible word order,
the first can be considered to be a _________ of the second.
a.preemption
b.dialect
c.subset
d.biprogram
14) daneman and carpenter (1980) studied the relationship between working memory
span and reading comprehension with two span measures. the results suggested that
performance on __________ correlated highly with reading comprehension sat scores.
a.the simple digit span measure
b.the complex storage and processing span measure
c.both the simple digit span and complex storage and processing span measures
d.neither the simple digit span nor the complex storage and processing span measure
15) experimental studies of the effect of adult speech input on language acquisition
suggest that children benefit from:
a.practice in imitation of adult speech
b.adult sentences that recast the childs sentences into more complete grammatical form
c.adult sentences that are short and grammatical
d.adult sentences that are similar to their own
16) a general term that refers to the aspects of an utterances sound that are not specific
to the words themselves (for example, intonation and rate) is:
a.prosody
b.intonation
c.stress
d.rate
17) studies of brain-damaged patients with deficits in autonoetic consciousness have
provided evidence that:
a.episodic memory refers solely to the retrieval of personal facts from long-term
memory
b.episodic memory is more resilient than semantic memory
c.semantic memory is more resilient more than episodic memory
d.the distinction between episodic and semantic memory is biologically real
18) information from the _______ is sent first to the right cerebral hemisphere.
a.right visual field
b.left retina
c.right half of each retina
d.corpus callosum
19) words that function together in a sentence (such as called up) are called:
a.associative chains
b.semantic differentials
c..garden paths
d.constituents