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Within the realm of conversational speech,knowledge refers to


A) the meaning of a conversation.
B) the rules for combining spoken words into sentences.
C) the tendency to see relationships between spoken concepts even when those relationships do not exist.
D) the previously understood information that we bring into the conversation.

E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

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When two people engage in a conversation,if one person produces a specific grammatical construction in her speech and then the other person does the same,this phenomenon is referred to as


A) anaphoric inferencing.
B) phonemic restoration.
C) garden-pathing.
D) syntactic priming.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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According to the idea of ,when we read a sentence like,"Carmelo grabbed his coat from his bedroom and his backpack from the living room,walked downstairs,and called his friend Gerry," we create a simulation of Carmelo's apartment and keep track of his location as he moves throughout the apartment.


A) global connections
B) situation models
C) causal inference
D) speech continuity

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Chaz is listening to his grandma reminisce about the first time she danced with his grandpa 60 years ago.When his grandma says,"It seemed like the song would play forever," Chaz understands that it is more likely his grandma was listening to a radio playing and not a CD.This understanding requires Chaz use a(n)


A) garden path model.
B) given-new contract.
C) instrument inference.
D) age-appropriate principle.

E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

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In New Guinea,tribes that had been isolated for centuries were found that


A) had a large number of sophisticated language systems.
B) had languages that were more primitive than languages of most non-isolated societies.
C) communicated by hand signals but not verbal language as we know it.
D) had just a few language systems that were all governed by similar rules.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Define inference as it applies to text processing.Write a sample narrative paragraph that includes examples of anaphoric inference,instrument inference,and causal inference.Identify and describe each occurrence.

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Ty has finished work on his doctoral dissertation.He studied how most adults understand words,specifically the priming effects of categorically related words and submitted a proposal to be included in a psychological conference to present his work to his peers.Presentations at the conference are grouped based on the particular topic in psychology under consideration.It is most likely that Ty's work will be presented in a conference session on


A) psychophysics.
B) psychoacoustics.
C) neuropsychology.
D) psycholinguistics.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A researcher had participants read each of the sentences below and measured the time it took to read each sentence. Trial 1: The lamb ran past the cottage into the pasture.Trial 2: The dog ran past the house into the yard. The participants' response times were longer forbecause of theeffect.


A) trial 2;word frequency
B) trial 1;word frequency
C) trial 2;word superiority
D) trial 1;word superiority

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study presented participants with different pictures for interpreting the sentence,"Put the apple on the towel in the box." Their results showed the importance ofin how we understand sentences in real-life situations.


A) the cooperative principle
B) local connections
C) environmental context
D) instrumental inferences

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Language consists of smaller components,like words,that can be combined to form larger ones,like phrases,to create sentences,which themselves can be components of a larger story.This demonstrates theproperty of language.


A) hierarchical
B) relational
C) parallel
D) propositional

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Which set of stimuli would be the best selection for having people perform a lexical decision task?


A) Common words "cat,boat" and uncommon words "peon,furtive"
B) Concrete words "window,monkey" and abstract words "doubt,energy"
C) Words "pizza,history" and non-words "pibble,girk"
D) Correctly spelled words "speech,potato" and misspelled words "speach,potatoe"

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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C

A phoneme refers to


A) the property of combining words into unique sentences.
B) the first word produced by infants,usually during their second year.
C) a mental grouping of words being heard during "inner audition."
D) the shortest segment of speech that,if changed,changes the meaning of a word.

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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The crucial question in comparing syntax-first and interactionist approaches to parsing isis involved.


A) whether semantics
B) whether syntax
C) when semantics
D) when syntax

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Yoda,a central character of the Star Wars movies created by George Lucas,has a distinctive way of speaking.His statement,"Afraid you will be," violates which property of the English language?


A) Language involves the use of a lexicon
B) Coding is required for langauge
C) Language symbols must have high discriminability
D) Languge has a structure that is governed by rules

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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A psycholinguist conducts an experiment with a group of participants from a small village in Asia and another from a small village in South America.She asked the groups to describe the bands of color they saw in a rainbow and found they reported the same number of bands as their language possessed primary color words.These results


A) support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
B) contradict the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
C) support the word frequency effect.
D) contradict the word frequency effect.

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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B.F.Skinner,the modern champion of behaviorism,proposed that language is learned through


A) parsing.
B) genetic coding.
C) syntactic framing.
D) reinforcement.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Evidence that language is a social process that must be learned comes from the fact that when deaf children find themselves in an environment where there are no people who speak or use sign language,they


A) lose the ability to communicate in any way.
B) invent a sign language themselves.
C) start speaking out loud even though they cannot hear themselves.
D) demonstrate compensatory regeneration of lost auditory neural pathways.

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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B

One of Chomsky's most persuasive arguments for refuting Skinner's theory of language acquisition was his observation that children


A) produce sentences they have never heard.
B) show similar language development across cultures.
C) are rewarded for using correct language.
D) learn to follow complex language rules,even though they are not aware of doing so.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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The given-new contract is a method for creating


A) comprehension between a speaker and a listener in a conversation.
B) children's mastery of syntax.
C) resolution of a lexically ambiguous sentence.
D) anaphoric inferences between consecutive sentences.

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study presented participants with different pictures for interpreting the sentence,"Put the apple on the towel in the box." Their results support


A) the syntax-first approach to parsing.
B) the interactionist approach to parsing.
C) the garden-path model to parsing.
D) both syntax-first and interactionist approaches to parsing.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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