1) when we say, can you open the door? instead of open the door! we are using rules of
politeness. these rules are part of which aspect of linguistic knowledge?
a.syntax
b.pragmatics
c.phonology
d.semantics
2) studies of teacher-student communication in the classroom have found that:
a.teachers tend to request more information from those who they consider to be low in
communication skills
b.most classrooms have a high number of spontaneous student comments
c.most student comments are in direct response to a teacher query
d.children low in communication skills raise their hands as often as those with higher
communication skills
3) comparing ___________ would provide evidence to test whorfs hypothesis.
a.how many words a language has for a given concept
b.whether languages mark words for gender
c.how different languages mark words for number
d.whether pronouns are obligatory across languages
4) according to the text, true communication rests on an understanding of the concept
of:
a.communicative intent
b.sensorimotor functioning
c.secondary circular reactions
d.given and new information
5) the system of communication used by vervet monkeys:
a.is generally considered equivalent in complexity to human language
b.includes separate calls to signal the presence of different kinds of predators
c.displays displacement and duality of patterning, two hallmarks of human language
d.is taken as evidence that the vervets possess a theory of mind
6) according to freud, speech errors represent:
a.unintended but revealing expression of repressed thoughts
b.the degree of stress patients experience during psychoanalysis
c.the unconscious attempt by patients to deceive psychoanalysts
d.innocent phonological errors
7) caramazza and zurif (1976) tested brocas, wernickes, and conduction aphasics on
reversible and irreversible sentences. they found that:
a.wernickes patients were able to process both types of sentences most accurately
b.wernickes patients processed the reversible sentences but not the irreversible
sentences.
c.brocas aphasics were able to process both types of sentences most accurately
d.brocas aphasics did well on irreversible sentences but not on reversible sentences
8) the distinction between automatic and attentional processes deals with the degree to
which a task:
a.involves permanent memory retrieval
b.requires a deep level of processing
c.requires mental resources or processing capacity
d.is processed in working memory
9) the typicality effect:
a.is inconsistent with the original collins and quillian model
b.refers to the ease of verifying an ostrich is a bird relative to a canary is a bird
c.refers to the act that more typical members of a category take longer to verify
d.all of the above
10) which of the following is not a major parameter of american sign language?
a.hand configuration
b.place of articulation
c.movement
d.distinctive features
11) in observing childrens acquisition of genres, hicks (1990, 1991) found that children
________ more often when telling stories as opposed to recounting news events.
a.used the present tense
b.provided more evaluative remarks
c.used a factual reporting style
d.used ungrammatical sentences
12) the level of discourse that specifies the meaning of a passage apart from the exact
words used is the:
a.surface representation
b.verbatim representation
c.propositional representation
d.situational model
13) holding up one finger to express that a speaker is not finished speaking is an
example of a(n) ___________ gesture.
a.interactive
b.receptive
c.paragrammatic
d.referential
14) the representation of words in permanent memory is referred to as:
a.cognitive economy
b.spreading activation
c.lexical access
d.internal lexicon
15) some studies have found that men interrupt women more than vice versa whereas
other studies have found no gender differences in interruptions. in looking at patterns of
studies, we find that such interruptions were more common when the studies were
conducted
a.in social settings as opposed to formal tasks
b.by women
c. in the 1970s as opposed to later studies
d.in the 1990s and beyond
16) at the 1863 conference of the linguistic society of paris, research on the evolution of
language was:
a.the main topic of debate
b.protested by religious groups
c.protested by animal rights activists
d.banned because of the unscientific theories presented in the contributed papers
17) wernickes aphasia is characterized by:
a.injury to the left frontal lobe
b.deficits of comprehension and semantics
c.difficulty of repeating what is heard
d.pragmatically inappropriate speech
18) whereas english makes a distinction between putting things in and putting things
on, korean makes a distinction between:
a.putting large versus small objects into containers
b.putting things in tight versus loose containers
c.putting things temporarily versus permanently into containers
d.putting things into round versus rectangular containers