Exam 10: Language II: Language Production and Bilingualism

Psychologists have conducted more research on language comprehension than on language production. Which of the following students provides the best explanation for this discrepancy?

Comparisons of bilingual and monolingual speakers have shown that

Researchers have compared people's spoken language with their written language. When people speak, they are:

According to the discussion of writing in Chapter 10,

What can we conclude about the relationship between a person's age of acquisition of a second language and his or her mastery of grammar?

Chapter 10 discussed a study by Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs in which two people try to communicate about the order in which various geometric figures are to be arranged. The research showed that

According to the research on sentence generation during writing,

Sara has spoken English all her life. In high school and college, she takes French and eventually becomes fluent in that language. This is an example of

A third-grader calls out an answer in class, without raising his hand. The teacher says, "Is your arm broken, Johnny?" The teacher's remark can be called a(n)

What can we conclude about the accuracy of speech production?

Suppose that you have a summer job in which you work with both monolingual and bilingual children, although the two groups are otherwise similar. You would expect to find that

What can we conclude about age of acquisition and mastery of a second language?

A narrative usually concludes with

Chapter 10 discussed a study that compared the working-memory skills of three groups of Dutch-English bilinguals. This study concluded that

Compared to writing, speaking is more likely to

Chapter 10 examines the relationship between age of acquisition and ability to learn a second language. Before we can draw conclusions about this topic, which of the following questions needs further attention?

In discussing the social aspects of language, psycholinguistics researchers sometimes use a metaphor of two people dancing. Why is this metaphor appropriate?

Jason is an infant whose parents speak English at home. When his parents are at work, Jason stays in a family day care home where all the employees speak only Spanish. Jason is experiencing

An English professor has just asked the students in his class to revise their term papers. He is likely to find that

Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about bilingual people and monolingual people?