Deck 13: Language Production

Question 1

Who argued for a model of speech formulation that stated speech error evidence suggests there is a distinction between a functional level of planning and a positional level of planning?

A)Broca
B)Garrett
C)Wernicke
D)Chomsky
E)Piaget

Answer 1

B

Question 2

John was looking at a shop-front in the background that had the name "Clark´s" printed on it. When he told his son to "Get out of the clark," he meant to say, "Get out of the car." This is an example of:

A)Dyslexia
B)Conditional facilitation
C)Anomia
D)Environmental contamination
E)Environmental purity

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which type of syntactic disorder is characterized by a sentence construction deficit, with some parts of speech being better preserved than others, and difficulty in understanding syntactically complex sentences?

A)Crossed aphasia
B)Global aphasia
C)Dyslexia
D)Anomia
E)Agrammatism

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Which of these fragments causes agreement errors?

A)The player on the course
B)The player on the court
C)The player on the courts
D)The women at the store
E)The man at the station

Question 5

Form-based word substitutions are sometimes called phonologically related word substitution errors, or:

A)Amalgams
B)Retractors
C)Malapropisms
D)Distracters
E)Formants

Question 6

Processing of a particular syntactic structure influences the processing of subsequently presented sentences in a general phenomenon of syntactic priming known as:

A)Syntactic transience
B)Lexical ambiguity
C)Lexical persistence
D)Syntactic persistence
E)Syntactic exhaustion

Question 7

In the sentence, "Get me a beer, if the beer is cold," a final "r" sound has been added explicitly to the end of the second "beer," so that it is pronounced "beea--riz." The word beer has been:

A)Summated
B)Disassociated
C)Tracked
D)Resyllabified
E)Retracted

Question 8

Which of the following is an impairment in retrieving the names of objects and pictures of objects, and can be found in isolation, or accompanying other disorders?

A)Anomia
B)Dyslexia
C)Aphasia
D)Dysgraphia
E)Aggramatism

Question 9

Subjects were given a word in an acoustic form through headphones, and were instructed to press a button as soon as they decided whether an item was a word or not. This was:

A)A conservation task
B)A word association task
C)A source monitoring task
D)A phoneme monitoring task
E)An auditory lexical decision task

Question 10

During which stage of writing is written language produced from the representation in memory, and the writing plan turned into sentences?

A)Reviewing
B)Planning stage
C)Translation stage
D)Editing
E)Initiation stage

Question 11

Which type of aphasia results in the production of fluent but often meaningless speech?

A)Broca´s
B)Conduction
C)Crossed
D)Global
E)Wernicke´s

Question 12

Gestures used only for emphasis are called:

A)Batonic
B)Retroactive
C)Deterrent
D)Impeders
E)Iconic

Question 13

The stage of specifying in a pre-phonological, abstract way the word that we are just about to say, is called:

A)Iconic selection
B)Consolidation stage
C)Phonological stage
D)Lemma selection
E)Priming stage

Question 14

Which of the following can be a filled pause, a repetition, a false start, or a parenthetical remark?

A)An unfilled pause
B)A filled hesitation
C)A blocking pause
D)An unfilled hesitation
E)A blocking hesitation

Question 15

Sounds from the end of one syllable migrate to form the beginning of the next syllable during:

A)Resyllabification
B)Summation
C)Disassociation
D)Tracking
E)Retraction

Question 16

The smallest prosodic unit of speech (a stressed, strong syllable and any associated unstressed, weak syllables) is called a:

A)Phonological word
B)Kinship term
C)Spoonerism
D)Pidgin term
E)Lexeme

Question 17

Which tip-of-the-tongue theory says that the target items are inaccessible because they are only weakly represented in the system?

A)Blocking hypothesis
B)Ambiguous activation model
C)Computational activation hypothesis
D)Division of labor model
E)Partial activation hypothesis

Question 18

The stage of specifying the actual concrete phonological form of the word is called:

A)Lexeme selection
B)Resyllabification
C)Editing
D)The initiation stage
E)Lemma selection

Question 19

Which of the components of formulation involves putting words together to form a sentence?

A)Fluency planning
B)Syntactic planning
C)Representation
D)Resyllabification
E)Lexicalization

Question 20

Which of the following processes of speech production involves translating a conceptual representation into a linguistic form?

A)Rationalization
B)Subtraction
C)Summation
D)Formulation
E)Conceptualization