Question 1

Boxing champion George Foreman recently described his family vacations with the statement, "At our ranch in Marshall, Texas, there are lots of ponds and I take the kids out and we fish. And then of course, we grill them." That a reader understands "them" appropriately (George grills fish, not his kids!)  is the result of a(n)  ____________________ inference.

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A)   narrative
B)   instrument
C)   analogic
D)   anaphoric

Question 2

Which property below is NOT one of the characteristics that makes human language unique?

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A)   Hierarchical structure
B)   Communication
C)   Governed by rules
D)   It involves arrangement of a sequence of symbols

Question 3

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

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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 nonwords "pibble, girk"
D)   Correctly spelled words "speech, potato" and misspelled words "speach, potatoe"

Question 4

Which of the following terms best describes the concept of entrainment?

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A)   Isolation
B)   Similarity
C)   Cooperation
D)   Understanding

Question 5

Within the realm of conversational speech, knowledge refers to the

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

Question 6

Compare and contrast Skinner's and Chomsky's views on language acquisition. Give examples of each perspective to support your ideas.

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Question 7

Brain imaging studies reveal that semantics and syntax are associated with which two lobes of the cerebral cortex?

Accepted Answer

A)   The parietal and occipital lobes
B)   The frontal and temporal lobes
C)   The temporal and parietal lobes
D)   The frontal and parietal lobes

Question 8

If human speech is represented as a string of taffy on a candy-making assembly line, then what function does speech segmentation serve at the candy factory?

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A)   It mixes the taffy ingredients.
B)   It adds flavors to the taffy.
C)   It puts the taffy in packages.
D)   It cuts the taffy into pieces.

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

Which of the following statements is NOT accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)   Lexicon is smaller in scope than semantics.
B)   Semantics are multidimensional in scope.
C)   The scope of lexical semantics is variable.
D)   Semantics and lexicons are equal in scope.

Question 11

According to the concept of ________, when we read a sentence like, "Jorge 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 Jorge's apartment and keep track of his location as he moves throughout the apartment.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 13

The concept of language can best be thought of as a ________.

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A)   process
B)   dialogue
C)   cognition
D)   system

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

Syntax is the

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

In the context of language, another term for "heuristics" is ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   phrases
B)   rules
C)   meanings
D)   turns

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