Ch 11 Language
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which property below is NOT one of the characteristics that makes human language unique?
Grammar
Communication
Governed by rules
It can convey abstract concepts
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Yoda, a central character of the Star Wars movies created by George Lucas, has a distinctive way of speaking. His statement, "Afraid you will be," violates which property of the English language?
Language involves the use of a lexicon.
Coding is required for language.
Language has a large lexicon
Language has a structure that is governed by rules.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
B.F. Skinner, the modern champion of behaviorism, proposed that language is learned through
parsing
genetic coding
syntactic framing.
reinforcement.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Noam Chomsky proposed that
humans are genetically programmed to acquire and use language.
language is learned through the mechanism of reinforcement.
as children learn language, they produce only sentences they have heard before.
the underlying basis of language is different across cultures.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Ron encounters the word "wanderlust" in a novel he is reading, reaches for the dictionary, and finds out this word means "desire to travel." The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's
lexicon
parser
syntax
mental set
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
When the front part of a sentence can be interpreted more than one way, but the end of the sentence clarifies which meaning is correct, we say that the sentence is an example of
parsing
temporary ambiguity
speech segmentation
lexical priming
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The word frequency effect refers to the fact that we respond more
slowly to low-frequency words than high-frequency words.
slowly to letters appearing in nonwords than letters appearing in words.
quickly to letters that appear multiple times in a word than just once in a word.
quickly to phonemes that appear multiple times in a word than just once in a word.
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