1) children with williams syndrome display:
a.normal cognitive development but delayed syntactic skills
b.delayed cognitive development but normal syntactic skills
c.delayed cognitive development and delayed syntactic skills
d.normal cognitive development and poor semantic skills
2) which is not true of planning and production cycles of speech?
a.the ratio of speaking to pausing time is roughly the same for all speakers.
b.speakers plan the next unit of speech while pausing.
c.speakers pause more before producing yes/no questions.
d.speakers pause more before producing low-frequency words.
3) the use of pitch to signify different meanings is:
a.stress
b.rate
c.intonation
d.prosody
4) the positional interpretation of childrens multi-word utterances is that children:
a.prefer putting certain words in specific positions in a sentence
b.use knowledge of semantic knowledge to learn syntactic relations
c.intuitively grasp that either agents and objects can be the subjects of sentences
d.intuitively grasp that subjects are typically followed by predicates
5) the visual centers are located in the back of the brain in the:
a.occipital lobe
b.temporal lobe
c.parietal lobe
d.cortical lobe
6) in eimas et als (1971) study, 1- and 4-month-old infants responded to syllables whose
initial consonant varied in its vot value. the results of the study showed that:
a.neither group of infants was able to perceive the differences in the speech sounds
b.both groups of infants heard differences in speech sounds, but nether was able to
organize them into speech categories
c.only the 4-month-olds were able to perceive differences in speech sounds and
organize them into categories
d.both groups were able to perceive differences in speech sounds and organize them
into categories
7) pollack and pickett (1964) showed that when a word is isolated from its context it
becomes:
a.completely unintelligible
b.more intelligible than in context
c.less intelligible than in context
d.just as intelligible as in context
8) in general, studies have found that childrens bilingualism:
a.improves their metalinguistic awareness
b.improves phonological awareness, but not awareness of other aspects of language
c.has no effect on their metalinguistic awareness
d.interferes with the acquisition of metalinguistic awareness
9) the convention of _____ states that we should make our contribution as informative
as is required, but not more informative than is required.
a.quality
b.quantity
c.relation
d.manner
10) the acoustic information that specifies a phoneme will change based on preceding
or following phonemes. this is known as:
a.parallel transmission
b.coarticulation
c.formant interaction
d.context-conditioned variation
11) which of the following characterize processing modules?
a.they are independent of general cognitive processes.
b.they are shared by processes from different domains (such as art and music).
c.they draw on controlled process, such as decision making.
d.their workings are available to conscious inspection.
12) the poverty of stimulus argument refers to the fact that:
a.children can only learn one language at a time
b.children cannot learn language solely from the language samples they hear
c.children born into poverty learn language more slowly
d.children use single words to convey whole sentences
13) the difficulty of reading passages has been found to depend on:
a.the distance of an antecedent to an anaphor
b.whether a passage has both local and global structure
c.whether the passage contains given or new information
d.whether the sentence contains anaphoric or cataphoric reference
14) _________ experience childhood amnesia, and cannot recall events before their
third birthday
a.adults who have suffered stroke
b.children born with aggramatism
c.children who have experienced head trauma
d.all adults
15) the initial sounds in the words big and dig are:
a.different morphemes
b.different phonemes
c.different features
d.different allophones
16) vot is a(n) __________ and ___________ cue to voicing in stop consonants.
a.unreliable; variable
b.unreliable; invariant
c.reliable; variable
d.reliable; invariant
17) a conversational setting in which participants engage in speech exchanges that
resemble ordinary conversation but are governed by organizational rules is called a(n):
a.personal setting
b. institutional setting
c.therapeutic setting
d.informal setting
18) the model of lexical access that assumes that a words orthographic and phonetic
properties must be accounted for separately is the:
a.cohort model
b.logogen model
c.autonomous search model
d.hierarchical network model
19) mackay (1978) found that the time to take a verb and produce a related noun was
longest for words with the suffix:
a.-ment, as in government
b.-ion, as in decision
c.-ence, as in existence
d.none of the above