Exam 13: Language Comprehension

A participant reads "Lena clapped the kitten to Vick." The researcher should expect to see:

In the sentence "The cat the dog chased was orange," "the dog chased" is an example of a:

Distinguish between transient ambiguity and permanent ambiguity.

What evidence suggests that we combine semantics and syntax when interpreting a sentence?

A participant reads "Lena clapped the kitten Vick." The researcher should expect to see a(n):

Gina is looking at the bus schedule.She needs to go to the mall to buy a dress to wear to the prom.The sentence "Gina is looking at the bus schedule" corresponds to Kintsch's:

_____ inferences reach back to make connections with earlier parts of the text._____ inferences add new information to the interpretation of the text and often predict what will be coming up in the text.

Difficulty in both semantic and syntactic processing are indicated by a(n):

There are no limits on how many elaborative inferences can be made.

Strohner and Nelson (1974)had 2- and 3-year-olds use toys to act out the following sentences: (1)The cat chased the mouse. (2)The mouse chased the cat. How were these sentences interpreted?

It is optional whether people will make:

According to the modularity position:

How do English speakers and German speakers differ in their use of syntactic cues?

A participant reads "Lena gave the kitten Vick." The researcher should expect to see:

The sentence "The old fly for less" is an example of a _____ ambiguity.

What evidence suggests that the syntactic and semantic processes are separable?

Kintsch theorizes that there are two levels of representation of text material.He refers to these two levels as _____ and _____ level of analysis.

The presentation of an ambiguous word,such as bank:

_____ is one in which a listener integrates a current utterance with his own world knowledge.

Describe each stage of language comprehension.