1) chomsky used the sentence colorless green ideas sleep furiously to illustrate the point
that:
a.the associative chain theory of language was invalid
b.each word in a sentence serves as a stimulus for the next word
c.we use meaning more than syntax in comprehending sentences
d.aphasia disrupts semantic relationships between words
2) a childs use of idiomorphs is important because it indicates that:
a.objects can be named consistently
b.objects can have personal names
c.objects have permanence
d.objects can be categorized
3) ortony (1975) suggested that we use ________ to communicate experiential
information that is otherwise difficult to express
a.convention
b.metaphor
c.felicity
d.relation
4) the intellectual tradition of empiricism primarily relies on:
a.the role of innate factors, rather than experience in studying behavior
b.argument as a means of evaluating hypotheses
c.the collection of data to evaluate hypotheses
d.the social rules involved in language use
5) which of the following is not a type of discourse?
a.a debate
b.a conversation
c.an award ceremony
d.a poetry recital
6) jackendoff used the examples of a parent and apparent to emphasize that:
a.we cannot determine word boundaries on phonological grounds alone
b.ambiguity is more widespread in language than is commonly realized
c.transformational rules are needed along with phrase-structure rules to provide a
complete grammatical theory
d.the frequency of a word has a significant effect on how easily it is retrieved
7) according to the sacks, schegloff, and jefferson (1974) model of conversation, the
primary rule is that:
a.the current speaker is allowed to select the next speaker
b.the first person to speak up during a silence gains the floor
c.the current speaker may continue, although is not obligated to do so
d.the speaker who yields the least number of turns is perceived to be the conversational
leader
8) a representation of concepts that is organized with respect to their relationships with
one another is known as a:
a.schema
b.cohort model
c.lemma
d.semantic network
9) according to fromkins model of production, the speech error a singing sewer
machine occurs at the _____ stage of production.
a.content word
b.intonation contour
c.phonetic segment
d.affix
10) the vocal cords or vocal folds are included in which system of production?
a.respiratory
b.laryngeal
c.supralaryngeal
d.none of the above
11) some studies of bilingual language acquisition have found that compared to
monolingual children, bilingual children:
a.are severely delayed in their language development
b.lag behind their monolingual peers in some grammatical distinctions
c.are advanced in their language development
d.are capable of acquiring two or more languages as easily as one language
12) perrig and kintsch (1985) found that when a text used sentences such as north of the
highway just east of the river is a gas station, subjects were more likely to store the text
in the form of:
a.a surface representation
b.a propositional representation
c.a situational model
d.a motion sentence
13) providing speech and behavior appropriate for a given classroom situation is an
aspect of:
a.joint pretence
b.referential communication
c.communicative competence
d.imitation-reply-evaluation sequence
14) in english, the basic word order is:
a.subject-object-verb, or sov
b.object-subject-verb, or osv
c.subject-verb-object, or svo
d.verb-subject-object, or vso
15) when two or more processes take place simultaneously, it is called _____
processing.
a.top-down
b.serial
c.parallel
d.automatic
16) a lemma refers to:
a.syntactic aspects of word knowledge.
b.phonological aspects of word knowledge
c.semantic aspects of word knowledge
d.all of the above