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Question1Whichofthefollowingis/aregenerallyagreeduponasnecessarycriteria/criterionforclaimingthatacommunicationsystemisalanguage?A.regularityB.productivityC.referentialityD.interpersonalE.bothregularityandproductivityQuestion2Thestudyofthewaysinwhichsoundscanbecombinedinanygivenlanguageiscalled:A.phonologyB.morphologyC.syntaxD.grammarE.pragmaticsQuestion3Thebranchoflinguisticsdevotedtothestudyofmeaning:A.phoneticsB.semanticsC.morphologyD.pragmaticsE.syntaxQuestion4WhichofthefollowingisNOTakindofsyntacticruleproposedbyChomsky?A.lexicalinsertionruleB.phrasestructureruleC.illegalcontractionruleD.rewriteruleE.transformationalruleQuestion5Accordingtothestudyofsemantics,understandingthemeaningofasentencerequireswhichofthefollowingconditions?A.understandingofthemeaningofeachwordinthesentenceB.understandingofthesyntaxofthesentenceC.understandingofthetruthconditionsofthesentenceD.understandingofthesyntaxandthetruthconditionsofthesentenceE.understandingofthemeaningofthewords,thesyntaxofthesentence,andthetruthconditionsofthesentenceQuestion6Georgeisnottallenoughtoridetherollercoaster.Georgeistooshorttoridetherollercoaster.Thesesentencesarerelatedthrough:A.ambiguityB.entailmentC.synonymy

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D.anomalyE.selfcontradictioQuestion7AccordingtoMiller,afundamentalproblemofspeechperceptionis:A.speechiscontinuousratherthandiscreteB.perceptionofspeechisnoncategoricalC.wepayattentiontocertainacousticpropertiesofspeechbutignoreothersD.hearingisalessaccuratesensethanvisionE.missingphonemescanrenderwordsincomprehensibleQuestion8WarrenandWarrenshowedthatwhenpresentedwithasentencewhereasoundwasreplacedbyacough(representedby*here),suchasItwasfoundthatthe*eelwasontheaxle,A.peoplecouldnotinterpretthesentenceB.peoplesaidthattheyunderstoodthewordtobewheel,buttheywereawarethattheydidnotactuallyhearthewsoundC.peoplesaidthattheyheardtheentirewordwheelwithoutbeingawareofanythingoddinthesentenceD.peopleerroneouslyheardthewordmealatfirst,butthenrealizedbytheendofthesentencethatthewordmustbewheel.E.peopleerroneouslyheardthewordheelandwereconfusedwhentheyheardtheendofthesentence.Question9StudiesofcontextandspeechperceptionhaveshownallofthefollowingphenomenaEXCEPT:A.SubjectsusecontexttomentallyrestoremissingphonemesB.SubjectsusecontexttounderstandmispronouncedwordsC.SubjectsusevisualcontexttodiscriminatesimilarphonemessuchasbaanddawhenthephysicalsoundisambiguousD.Subjectsnoticeadiscrepancywhentheyhearthesoundbapronouncedbutthevisualcueisconsistentwithadifferentphoneme(da)E.ListenersareoftenunawareoftheiruseofcontextinperceivingspeechQuestion10Studiesofspeecherrorssuggestthat:A.nativespeakersofalanguagerarelymakespeecherrorsB.mostspeecherrorsarecausedbyfatigueC.wordsubstitutionstypicallyshowbothmeaningandformrelationsD.choosingawordsmeaningandawordsformappeartobeseparateprocessesthatoperateatdifferenttimesinspeechproductionE.mostspeecherrorsshowbothmeaningandformrelations,andarecausedbyfatigueQuestion11StudiesofsentencecomprehensionhaveshownallofthefollowingEXCEPT:A.ExactwordingofaclauseispreservedinmemorywhilethatclauseisactivelybeingprocessedB.Afterasentencehasbeenprocessed,exactwordingisdiscardedandonlythegeneralmeaningispreservedinmemoryC.WetypicallydonotconsciouslynoticeambiguitiesinsentencesD.WedonotprocessexactwordinginmemoryweonlyprocessmeaningE.Bothmeaningsofanambiguouswordcanprimeperformanceinalexicaldecisiontask,evenwhentheambiguouswordispresentedinacontextthatmakesitsmeaningclearQuestion12



Imgoingtomeethimatthebank.AttheFirstNationalBank,orattheriverbank?Thistypeofambiguityisreferredtoas:Imgoingtomeethimatthebank.AttheFirstNationalBank,orattheriverbank?Thistypeofambiguityisreferredtoas:A.phoneticB.grammaticalC.lexicalD.syntacticE.anomalousQuestion13Swinneysresearchsuggeststhatwhenweencounteralexicallyambiguousword,A.weprocessonlythemostcommonmeaningB.weprocessthemeaningthatisprimedbythecontextC.wefirstprocessthemostcommonmeaning,andthen(ifnecessary)theonethatfitsthecontextD.weprocessbothmeaningsE.weprocessbothmeaningsatfirst,thensuppresstheinappropriatemeaningQuestion14WhichofthefollowingdoesNOTmakeapassageoftexteasiertocomprehend,accordingtoresearch?A.avoidanceofsyntacticallyanomalouswordsB.lesspropositionalcomplexityC.amatchbetweenantecedentinformationandthegiveninformationD.providingarelevantcontextafterthepassagehasbeenreadE.allofthesemethodswillaidareaderincomprehendingatextpassageQuestion15Question15Theaverageeyefixationlastsabout:A.20millisecondsB.100millisecondsC.250millisecondsD.1secondE.2secondsQuestion16KintschandKeenanfoundthatwespendmoretimereadingsentencesthathave:A.morewordsB.morefunctionwordsC.morecontentwordsD.morepropositionsQuestion17WhichofthefollowingisNOTtrueofstorygrammars?A.TheyhavevariablesthatarefilledindifferentlyfordifferentstoriesB.TheyhelpidentifyunitsofastoryC.TheyspecifyhowoneunitofastoryrelatestootherunitsD.Wetypicallyhavebetterrecallofstoriesthatdonotconformtoexpectedstorygrammars,becausetheywarrantmoreattentionE.TheyprovideuswithaframeworkwithwhichwecanpredictcertainsequencesandelementsQuestion18Fodorsmodularityhypothesisproposesthat:A.languageprocessingactuallyencompassesseveralsubskills(modules)



B.inunderstandinglanguage,weseparatesentencesandphrasesintoindividualunitsknownasmodulesC.languageisdependentuponotherthoughtprocessessuchasexpectationD.thoughtprocessesaredependentuponthelanguageweusetothinkE.certainlanguageprocessesoperateindependentlyofothercognitiveprocessessuchasmemoryandattentionQuestion19Whorfslinguisticrelativityhypothesis:A.assertsthatthoughtisdependentuponlanguageB.issupportedbystudiesofcolorperceptionC.isnotsupportedbystudiesofcolorperceptionD.assertsthatthoughtisdependentuponlanguage,andissupportedbystudiesofcolorperceptionE.assertsthatthoughtisdependentuponlanguage,andisnotsupportedbystudiesofcolorperceptionQuestion20DamagetoBrocasareaoftenleadsto:A.expressiveaphasiaB.receptiveaphasiaC.inabilitytocomprehendwrittenlanguageD.bothexpressiveaphasiaandinabilitytocomprehendwrittenlanguageE.bothreceptiveaphasiaandinabilitytocomprehendwrittenlanguageQuestion21Thesmallestmeaningfulunitsoflanguagearecalledphonemes.A.TrueB.FalseQuestion22Semanticsisthebranchoflinguisticsthatstudiesmeaning.A.TrueB.FalseQuestion23Thewordbatisconsideredtobelexicallyambiguousbecauseithastwopossiblemeanings.A.TrueB.FalseQuestion24Abridginginferenceisasystemofrulesthatallowsustocomprehendlarge,integratedpiecesoftext.A.TrueB.FalseQuestion25Gricesmaximofquantitysaysthatoneshouldbetruthfulinaconversation.A.TrueB.FalseQuestion26Whorfshypothesishasbeenstronglysupportedbycrossculturalstudiesofcolorperception.A.TrueB.FalseQuestion27Turninyourexamisanexampleofadirective.A.True



B.FalseQuestion28Speecherrorsofteninvolveswappingwordswithsimilarmeaning,orwordswithsimilarsounds,butrarelydotheyinvolvebothmeaningandsound.A.TrueB.FalseQuestion29Peopletendtoprocessbothmeaningsofambiguouswordswhentheyencountertheminsentences.A.TrueB.FalseQuestion30DamagetoWernickesareaisassociatedwithdifficultiesinspeaking.A.TrueB.False

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