Exam 1: Introduction-Themes of Psycholinguistics

Chomsky's claim regarding child language acquisition was that:

The poverty of stimulus argument refers to the fact that:

The field of psycholinguistics:

Function words, which include prepositions and conjunctions, are known as _______ words.

The study of how children develop language is known as:

Which is of primary interest to behaviorists?

Words that function together in a sentence (such as called up) are called:

Chomsky used the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" to illustrate the point that:

Semantics deals with:

When we say, "Can you open the door?" instead of "Open the door!" we are using rules of politeness. These rules are part of which aspect of linguistic knowledge?

The interdisciplinary field that studies the mind and mental processes is called:

The intellectual tradition of empiricism primarily relies on:

Analyzing garden path sentences reveals processes involved in:

Phonology refers to:

A research investigation in which data are collected repeatedly over periods of time is called a:

The way we perceive and understand speech is known as:

The branch of science that focuses on the origin, structure, and use of language is:

The relationship between picked and up in the sentence "George picked the baby up" was seen as evidence against which theory?

A tool to measure the associative meanings of words is:

Sociolinguists study the linguistic behavior of: