1) a child who says fweet instead of sweet would be illustrating the phonological
process called:
a.reduction
b.coalescence
c.assimilation
d.reduplication
2) the type of memory that holds traces of events that are specific to a time and place is
called _____ memory.
a.semantic
b.working
c.episodic
d.secondary
3) a rule that refers to itself, such as the rule a sentence may be rewritten as a np and v
and s is called a(n):
a.recursive rule
b.generational rule
c.transformational rule
d.arbitrary rule
4) most models of memory assume that:
a.memory capacity and attentional resources are unlimited
b.how many things we can attend to at once depends on the nature of each task
c.with practice, there is no limit on how many activities we can perform simultaneously
d.working memory and long-term memory have the same storage capacity
5) which is the following is not true of childrens use of cohesion?
a.children as young as 2 years old use cohesive devices, such as reference pronouns,
verbal ellipsis, and conjunctions.
b.once acquired, the relative proportion of cohesive devices remains stable from 3.5 to
9.5 years of age.
c.children frequently use one pronoun (e.g., she) to refer to several characters in a
single narrative.
d.the cohesive device most often used by children is repetition.
6) the three representations of discourse are:
a.direct, demonstrative, and comparative
b.local, global, and situational
c.reference, lexical, and conjunction
d.propositional, surface, and situational
7) the relation between phoned and up in the sentence john phoned the woman with the
curly hair up is handled within transformational grammar by the:
a.passive transformation
b.particle-movement transformation
c.deep structure
d.surface structure
8) the word-length effect refers to the finding that:
a.the longer the word list, the more words a subject can recall
b.subjects can recall a greater number of shorter words in a list
c.subjects can recall a greater number of longer words in a list
d.most subjects cannot recall more than seven plus or minus items in a word list
9) in the sachs et al (1974) model, turn taking:
a.has no rules
b.has rules but the order depends on the personalities of the participants
c.has three implicit and ordered rules
d.requires that participants agree on turn sequence and turn length before the
conversation begins
10) mlu is an index of language progress that
a.captures a childs ability to produce grammatical sentences
b.captures a childs ability to produce the phonemes of their language sentences
c.captures a childs ability to combine idiomorphs in a productive manner
d.captures a childs ability to combine morphemes in a productive manner.
11) utterances that occur without a prior adult utterance, or without a pause after a
previous adult utterance are called:
a.nonadjacent
b.noncontingent
c.imitative
d.contingent
12) according to schank (1977), the topic of a conversation may be defined as:
a.what conversationalists agree to in advance
b.a set of preconditions
c. the intersection of propositions across sentences
d.none of the above
13) for preschool children, the process of segmenting words into syllables (for example,
hos-pi-tal) _____ the process of segmenting syllables into phonemes (for example,
b-a-ll).
a.is easier than
b.is about as easy as
c.is harder than
d. is more related to learning reading skills than
14) the connectionist model showing that various levels of speech processing occur
simultaneously and interactively is known as: (the):
a.motor theory
b.trace model
c.modularity
d.dual-route model
15) when two people engage in a coordinated activity, they are participating in what
herbert clark termed:
a.discourse
b.bystanding
c.joint action
d.eavesdropping
16) therapist responses to unsolicited comments include:
a.ignoring the intrusion
b.responding to the unsolicited responder but steering the conversation back to the
intended addressee
c.allowing the unsolicited comment to open up a new conversational topic
d. all of the above
17) the main functional area for auditory processing is in the:
a.occipital lobe
b.temporal lobe
c.parietal lobe
d.cortical lobe
18) processing that proceeds from the lowest level to the higher levels in such a way
that all of the lower levels of processing operate without influence from the higher
levels is called _____ processing.
a.top-down
b.bottom-up
c.controlled
d.parallel
19) which of the following typically varies in conversation?
a.the number of people
b.the topic
c.the turn length
d.all of the above
20) function words, which include prepositions and conjunctions, are known as
_______ words.
a.open-class
b.closed-class
c.tacit
d.explicit