Exam 6: Sentence Comprehension and Memory

Just and Carpenter (1992) found evidence that:

For a speech act to have effect, _________ must be present.

Although we generally forget the exact form of a sentence shortly after we have heard or seen it, we tend to retain the exact wording when:

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

Frazier and Rayner (1982) found evidence for the _______ strategy, showing that we prefer attaching new items into the phrase marker being constructed using the fewest syntactic nodes possible.

Ortony (1975) suggested that we use ________ to communicate experiential information that is otherwise difficult to express

__________ is the process of relating incoming information to information already stored in permanent memory.

Which of the following results did Sachs (1967) obtain regarding the retention of sentence meaning and form?

A speech act serves

Which of the following is a conceptual metaphor?

The convention of _____ states that we should make our contribution as informative as is required, but not more informative than is required.