PSY 360 Week 4 QuizPSY 360 Week 4 QuizQuestion 1Which of the following is/are generally agreed upon as necessary criteria/criterion for claiming that a communication system is a language?A. regularityB. productivityC. referentialityD. interpersonalE. both regularity and productivity Question 2The study of the ways in which sounds can be combined in any given language is called:A. phonologyB. morphologyC. syntaxD. grammarE. pragmaticsQuestion 3The branch of linguistics devoted to the study of meaning:A. phoneticsB. semanticsC. morphologyD. pragmaticsE. syntaxQuestion 4Which of the following is NOT a kind of syntactic rule proposed by Chomsky?A. lexical insertion ruleB. phrase structure ruleC. illegal contraction ruleD. rewrite ruleE. transformational ruleQuestion 5According to the study of semantics, understanding the meaning of a sentence requires which of the following conditions?A. understanding of the meaning of each word in the sentenceB. understanding of the syntax of the sentenceC. understanding of the truth conditions of the sentenceD. understanding of the syntax and the truth conditions of the sentenceE. understanding of the meaning of the words, the syntax of the sentence, and the truthconditions of the sentenceQuestion 6“George is not tall enough to ride the roller coaster.” “George is too short to ride the roller coaster.” These sentences are related through:A. ambiguityB. entailmentC. synonymyD. anomalyE. self-contradictioQuestion 7According to Miller, a fundamental problem of speech perception is:A. speech is continuous rather than discreteB. perception of speech is noncategoricalC. we pay attention to certain acoustic properties of speech but ignore othersD. hearing is a less accurate sense than visionE. missing phonemes can render words incomprehensibleQuestion 8Warren and Warren showed that when presented with a sentence where a sound was replaced by a cough (represented by * here), such as “It was found that the *eel was on the axle,”A. people could not interpret the sentenceB. people said that they understood the word to be wheel, but they were aware that they did notactually hear the w soundC. people said that they heard the entire word wheel without being aware of anything odd in thesentenceD. people erroneously heard the word meal at first, but then realized by the end of the sentencethat the word must be wheel.E. people erroneously heard the word heel and were confused when they heard the end of thesentence.Question 9Studies of context and speech perception have shown all of the following phenomena EXCEPT:A. Subjects use context to mentally restore missing phonemesB. Subjects use context to understand mispronounced wordsC. Subjects use visual context to discriminate similar phonemes such as ba and da when thephysical sound is ambiguousD. Subjects notice a discrepancy when they hear the sound ba pronounced but the visual cue isconsistent with a different phoneme (da)E. Listeners are often unaware of their use of context in perceiving speechQuestion 10Studies of speech errors suggest that:A. native speakers of a language rarely make speech errorsB. most speech errors are caused by fatigueC. word substitutions typically show both meaning and form relationsD. choosing a words meaning and a words form appear to be separate processes that operate at different times in speech productionE. most speech errors show both meaning and form relations, and are caused by fatigueQuestion 11Studies of sentence comprehension have shown all of the following EXCEPT:A. Exact wording of a clause is preserved in memory while that clause is actively being processedB. After a sentence has been processed, exact wording is discarded and only the general meaning is preserved inmemoryC. We typically do not consciously notice ambiguities in sentencesD. We do not pr
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