1) recent research on gender and language:
a.confirmed that women use tag questions more than men
b. do not find that women use tag questions more than men
c.found that women used tag questions more when they were the more powerful partner
in the relationship
d.found that either party used tag questions more when they were the more powerful
partner in the relationship, regardless of gender
2) cross-linguistic studies of the color domain suggest that:
a.different languages are remarkably similar in the color words they use
b.languages differ randomly in the color words they use
c.there is a hierarchy of color terms
d.cultures determine whether color is perceived categorically or discretely
3) the late closure strategy of parsing states that:
a.we prefer to attach new items to the current constituent
b.we prefer to make decisions about each word immediately, as we encounter it
c.we prefer to use the fewest syntactic nodes possible
d.we prefer to postpone interpretations of words until the sentence meaning is clear
4) studies of speech errors:
a.are entertaining and interesting but not considered to be scientifically credible
b.are only interesting to psychoanalysts
c.are worth undertaking because they inform psychologists about patterns of speech
production and planning
d.are not worth undertaking because theyve provided little insight into speech
production and planning
5) lexical hierarchies contain _________, in which most of the distinguishing attributes
of a concept are assigned.
a.basic level terms
b.associations
c.lexemes
d.lemmas
6) neisser s (1964) study of visual search, in which subjects search a list of letters for a
target letter, provided evidence for the role of _____ in the perception of written
language.
a.fixations
b.saccades
c.regressions
d.features
7) the view that we comprehend figurative language by first identifying the literal
meaning and then inferring the intended meaning is found in the _____ theory.
a.conceptual metaphor
b.class-inclusion
c.pragmatic
d.instantiation
8) by replacing (rather than repeating) a lexical item in a sentence, we are using the
form of cohesion known as:
a.ellipsis
b.anaphor
c.lexical
d.antecedent
9) the study of the relationship between the brain and language is termed:
a.aphasia
b.psycholinguistics
c.sociolinguistics
d.neurolinguistics
10) a formant is:
a. a location in the vocal tract
b. a rapid movement of the eye
c.a band of energy in a spectrogram
d.a stroke of a chinese character
11) a word-initial cohort is activated by the _________ of the input.
a.semantic features
b.orthographic representation
c.acoustic-phonetic analysis
d.word frequency
12) zimmerman and west (1975) observed that in conversations between men and
women:
a. men tend to interrupt women more than vice versa
b.women tend to delay their minimal responses more than men
c.men tend to use overlaps more than women
d.women dont view interruptions as violations of turn-taking rules
13) fishmans (1978) analysis of couples in conversation concluded that womens use of
informal phrases (such as dya know?):
a.reflects the growing equality between men and women
b. reflects the asymmetry between men and women
c.reflects a lack of assertiveness in women
d.reflects confidence and boldness in women
14) the strategy likely to be used to comprehend the sentences last christmas eugene
went to a lot of parties. this christmas he got very drunk again is:
a.anaphoric reference
b.reinstatement
c.bridging
d.none of the above
15) research on cross-cultural color naming __________ the _______ version of the
whorfian hypothesis.
a.supports; weak
b.supports; strong
c.refutes; weak
d.refutes; strong