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Pollack and Pickett's experiment on understanding speech found that when participants were presented with individual words taken out of conversations (single words presented alone with no context) ,they could identify

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A)  100% of the words spoken by their own voices.
B)  50% of the words spoken by their own voices.
C)  50% of the words spoken by others with an accent similar to theirs.
D)  none of the words spoken by others.E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 2

Describe how lexical ambiguity can be studied using a priming lexical decision task.Define lexical ambiguity and give an example of a sentence or text passage containing an ambiguous word.Mention three test stimuli to be used in the lexical decision task.Discuss lexical decision results for synchronous presentation with the ambiguous word and delayed presentation (200 ms after the ambiguous word).What do these results indicate about our processing of ambiguous words?

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Question 3

Syntax is

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A)  the rules for combining words into sentences.
B)  the meanings of words.
C)  the way people pronounce words in conversational speech.
D)  the mental grouping of words in a sentence into phrases.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 4

When we look at a record of the physical energy produced by conversational speech in a person's native language,we see that the speech signal

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A)  has breaks between phonemes.
B)  has breaks between morphemes.
C)  has breaks between words.
D)  is continuous.E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 5

In the lexical decision task,participants are asked to

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A)  separate a sentence into individual words.
B)  decide which meaning of an ambiguous sentence is correct in a specific situation.
C)  identify words that are contained in sentences.
D)  decide whether a string of letters is a word or a non-word.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 6

Which of the following is the best example of a garden path sentence?

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A)  Before the police stopped the Toyota disappeared into the night.
B)  The man was not surprised when he found several spiders,roaches,and other bugs in the corner of the room.
C)  The cats won't bake.
D)  The Eskimos were frightened by the walrus.E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 7

When the front part of a sentence can be interpreted more than one way,but the end of the sentence clarifies which meaning is correct,we say that the sentence is an example of

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A)  parsing.
B)  temporary ambiguity.
C)  speech segmentation.
D)  lexical priming.E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 8

Ron is an avid reader.He has a large vocabulary because every time he comes across a word he doesn't know,he looks it up in the dictionary.Ron encounters "wanderlust" in a novel,reaches for the dictionary,and finds out this word means "desire to travel." The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's

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A)  lexicon.
B)  parser.
C)  syntactical capacity.
D)  mental set.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 9

Define the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and describe the experiments on color perception that support it.

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Question 10

Noam Chomsky proposed that

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A)  humans are genetically programmed to acquire and use language.
B)  language is learned through the mechanism of reinforcement.
C)  as children learn language,they produce only sentences they have heard before.
D)  the underlying basis of language is different across cultures.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

Describe the interactionist approach to parsing,and the methods and results of eye movement research that support it.

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The interactionist approach to parsing i...

Question 12

Lilo can't wait for school to start.This year is the first time she gets to take a foreign language class,and she is taking Japanese.Dr.Nabuto is a professor interested in studying how people learn additional languages later in life,and he is including Lilo's class in his research.Dr.Nabuto is most likely studying

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A)  language comprehension.
B)  language acquisition.
C)  speech production.
D)  speech parsing.E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 13

Coherence refers to the

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A)  mental process by which readers create information during reading that is not explicitly stated in the text.
B)  principle that we process information in isolation before we link it to its context.
C)  mental process whereby ambiguity is resolved online during sentence reading.
D)  representation of the text in a reader's mind,so that information in one part of the text is related to information in another part of the text.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 14

The idea that the rules governing the grouping of words in a sentence is the primary determinant of the way a sentence is parsed is part of theapproach to parsing.

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A)  semantic
B)  temporary ambiguity
C)  syntax-first
D)  interactionistE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 15

The interactionist approach to parsing states that

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A)  semantics is activated only at the end of a sentence.
B)  semantics is activated as a sentence is being read.
C)  the grammatical structure of a sentence determines the initial parsing.
D)  semantics is only activated to clear up ambiguity.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 16

Consider the sentence,"Because he always jogs a mile seems like a short distance to him."
The principle of late closure states that this sentence would first be parsed into which of the following phrases?

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A)  "Because he always jogs"
B)  "Because he always jogs a mile"
C)  "he always jogs"
D)  "a mile seems"E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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