Exam 9: Language

That background characteristics within the language have been proposed to change how people understand the world reflects __________.

The reality and nature of speech errors suggest that __________.

ERP studies investigating semantically anomalous sentences reveal that these sentences produce a distinctive __________.

The disruption (a loss of all or some)of previously intact word finding,either lexical or semantic,caused by a brain-related disorder or injury is __________.

"To beer a pour" is an illustration of __________.

According to studies (such as that by McCandliss,Posner,& Givon [1997]),how many weeks of processing words in a new language does it take for brain activity to resemble that with words in one's native language?

The study of the sounds of a language is called ________.

The disruption (a loss of all or some)of previously intact visual object recognition abilities caused by a brain-related disorder or injury is __________.

Which is NOT true of the sentence "The shooting of the hunters was terrible"?

Syntax is not influenced by semantics.

Which of the following is NOT included within Chomsky's transformational grammar?

__________ is a situation in which existing knowledge of language biases one's reasoning about what one is hearing.

In TG,"The boy kissed the girl" and "Did the boy kiss the girl?" differ in their deep structure.

How do the approaches of transformational grammar and case grammar differ?

The internalized knowledge of language and its rules that fully fluent speakers of a language have is known as__________.

Which of the following is NOT associated with the concept of arbitrariness?

We begin our utterances before the syntax and semantics of the final portion of the sentence have been worked out.

?The linguistic universal that specifies that "language conveys meaning" is __________.

Derivational complexity refers to __________.

With training,grammatical versus ungrammatical sentence structures do not impact shadowing performance.