Exam 13: Language Comprehension

According to those who espouse the interactive processing position regarding transient syntactic ambiguity,which two elements of language are processed together at all levels of processing?

A(n)_____ inference must be made when reading to relate propositions across sentence boundaries.

Participants have the best memory for the first major constituent.

The dominant syntactic cue in English is:

Why are elaborative inferences more problematic than bridging inferences?

The _____ is an indicant of difficulty in syntactic processing.

The more difficult a sentence,the more time participants take to detect a target phoneme.

Young children rely:

Why are we aware that we reinterpret some ambiguous sentences,but not others?

Based on Swinney's (1979)study of lexical ambiguity,how long does it take for an individual to determine the intended meaning of an ambiguous word?

According to this finding regarding language comprehension ability,people try to extract meaning out of each word as it arrives and do not wait until the end of a sentence,or even the end of a phrase,to decide how to interpret a word.

What is a bridging inference? What is an elaborative inference?

It takes _____ to program an eye movement.

The N400 is an indicant of difficulty in syntactic processing.

Individuals often need extra time at a _____ boundary to complete semantic processing.

_____ are made automatically.

_____ refers to transforming the linguistic input into a mental representation.

Activity in Broca's area increases when participants encounter a permanent ambiguity.

_____ is one in which a listener connects a current utterance to preceeding utterances.

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 going to take the bus to the mall" corresponds to Kintsch's: