Exam 10: Language II: Language Production and Bilingualism

What can we conclude about the accuracy of speech production?

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

Suppose that you want to say,"red bugs," and instead you say,"beg rugs." This kind of slip-of-the-tongue error is called a

Suppose you have a 22-year-old friend who came to North America from Korea when he was 15 and then began to learn English.If he is like the participants in Flege's study on bilingualism,he will find that

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

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

What can we conclude about the relationship between attitudes and proficiency in a second language?

Imagine that an elementary teacher has two classes,one monolingual and the other bilingual-though their other characteristics are similar.The bilingual class is more likely to

On which of the following tasks is a bilingual child likely to have some difficulty,compared with a monolingual child?

Which of the following statements about language production is correct?

What can we conclude about the comparison between experts and nonexperts,with respect to writing?

Stephen is describing an explosion in an action film,and pushes his open-fingered hands violently into the air to simulate the outward force.Stephen has made a(n)

Sarah is trying to say the phrase "big blue bird," and it comes out "big blue blird." She has made a

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

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

Suppose that you decide to adopt the advice suggested in the discussion of writing in Chapter 10.You are likely to write a better paper if you

You are testing the cognitive abilities of three groups of bilingual French-English speakers in Montreal,whose native language is French: university students,English teachers,and French-English interpreters.On a test of reading span,administered in English,you would expect that

Which of the following students provides the most accurate statement about the specific kind of discourse known as a narrative?

Suppose you are testing children who are monolingual English speakers and children who are fluent in both English and Spanish.Assuming that their other characteristics are similar,you are likely to find that

According to the discussion of writing in Chapter 10,