Exam 6: Sentence Comprehension and Memory

Which of the following are thematic roles in a sentence?

The view that we use all available information--syntactic, lexical, discourse, and so on--in our initial parsing of a sentence defines the ________ model of parsing.

In the sentence, Tom said that Bill had taken the cleaning out yesterday, we tend to attach the adverb yesterday to Bill had taken, rather than Tom said . This is an example of the:

In Austin's (1962) terminology, the act of saying something represents the:

The convention of _____ states that we should aim to make our contributions relevant to the ongoing conversation.

Modular views of parsing claim that:

The late closure strategy of parsing states that:

Christianson and colleagues (2001) presented participants with sentences such as While Anna dressed the baby played in the crib and found that many participants:

The effect of an utterance on a listener is its _____ effect.

We apply the immediacy principle to:

In the metaphor Billboards are warts on the landscape, the vehicle is:

A criticism of the pragmatic theory of figurative language comprehension is that:

___________ means one thing literally but is taken to mean something different.

The process of assigning elements of the surface structure to linguistic categories is referred to as:

Studies of metaphor comprehension converge on the conclusion that comprehension of metaphorical sentences is _____ comprehension of literal sentences.

A proposition is:

A ________ is a structural representation of the linguistic relationships within a sentence.

The sentence, The florist who sent the flowers was very pleased is grammatical because it contains a(n):

The view that we comprehend figurative language by first identifying the literal meaning and then inferring the intended meaning is found in the _____ theory.

Studies of the comprehension of indirect speech acts have led to the conclusion that: