Language Science Test 2

Front 1

Model that invites the listener to consider one possible parse, and then at the end forces him to abandon the parse in favor of another one

Back 1

Garden Path Model

Front 2

What are the three stages of the garden path model?

Back 2

initial analysis--> reanalysis--> repair

Front 3

The term for understanding a sentence by assigning elements of its surface structure to linguistic categories

Back 3

Parsing

Front 4

The Parsing strategy by which you attach new items to the current constituent

Back 4

Late Closure Strategy

Front 5

What kind of Parsing strategy do the following examples demonstrate?

Tom said that Bill had taken the cleaning out yesterday.
Tom said yesterday that Bill had taken the cleaning out.

Back 5

Late Closure Strategy

Front 6

build most simple structure (fewest syntactic nodes possible) Consistent with the grammatical rules of the language.[Ex. Count the number of nodes or branching points]

Back 6

Minimal Attachment Strategy

Front 7

What kind of parsing strategy does the following example demonstrate?

The city council argued the mayor's position--->The city council argued the Mayor's position forcefully.

Back 7

Minimal Attachment (note that forcefully is attached directly to the VP [argued the mayor's position])

Front 8

What's involved in sentence comprehension?

Back 8

1. Segment sounds (or letters) into groups (words, morphemes)
2. Access meanings for words, morphemes
3. Access syntactic and thematic information for words, morphemes
4. Incorporate these into syntactic structure
5. Semantic interpretation

Front 9

Ambiguity due to the potential grammatical functions of the individual words.

Back 9

Syntactic Ambiguity

Front 10

Ambiguity by which the syntactic function of a word remains temporarily ambiguous until it's later clarified as we hear more of the sentence.

Back 10

Local Ambiguity

Front 11

What type of ambiguity is the following example? Visiting relatives is boring vs. Visiting relatives are boring

Back 11

Local ambiguity

Front 12

Ambiguity by which sentences remain ambiguous even when all of the lexical information has been received

Back 12

Global ambiguity

Front 13

What type of ambiguity are the following examples? Visiting relatives can be boring. John bought the flower for Susan.

Back 13

Globl ambiguity

Front 14

The relationship between individual sentences
Cohesion: Does the discourse “stick together”?
Interpretation of one sentence depends on other

Back 14

Local/Microstructure

Front 15

Our knowledge of the structure corresponding to the theme/topic/genre The relationship between the sentences and our knowledge of the world

Back 15

Global Structure/Macrostructure