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1. Which property below is NOT one of the characteristics that makes human language unique?
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a. Communication
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2. Noam Chomsky proposed that:
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a. humans are genetically programmed to acquire and use language.
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3. The word "bad" has ________ phoneme(s).
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a. three
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4. You are conducting a study on how fluency influences the phonemic restoration effect. You study two groups of non-native English speakers, one with a year of English classes and the other with 10 years. All of your stimuli are in English. Who would you expect to show the greatest phonemic restoration effect?
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a. The group with 10 years of English instruction.
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5. In a study, participants listened to the following tape recording:
Rumor had it that, for years, the government building had been plagued with problems. The man was not surprised when he found several spiders, roaches, and other bugs in the corner of the room. As participants heard the word "bugs," they completed a lexical decision task to a test stimulus flashed on a screen. Results showed that the participants responded most slowly to the test stimulus: |
a. SKY.
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6. Swinney's lexical priming studies using ambiguous words as stimuli show that context:
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a. exerts its influence after all meanings of the word have been briefly accessed.
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7. Consider the sentence, "Because he always jogs a mile seems like a short distance to him." The principle of late closure states that this sentence would first be parsed into which of the following phrases?
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a. "Because he always jogs a mile"
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8. Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study presented participants with different pictures for interpreting the sentence, "Put the apple on the towel in the box." Their results showed the importance of ________ in how we understand sentences in real-life situations.
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a. environmental context
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9. Boxing champion George Foreman recently described his family vacations with the statement, "At our ranch in Marshall, Texas, there are lots of ponds and I take the kids out and we fish. And then of course, we grill them." That a reader understands "them" appropriately (George grills fish, not his kids!) is the result of a(n) ________ inference.
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a. anaphoric
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10. A psycholinguist conducts an experiment with a group of participants from a small village in Asia and another from a small village in South America. She asked the groups to describe the bands of color they saw in a rainbow and found they reported the same number of bands as their language possessed primary color words. These results:
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a. support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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