This document provides a quiz for PSY 352 Week 5 with 29 multiple choice questions covering topics in psycholinguistics and language processing. The questions assess knowledge of language production and comprehension processes, linguistic structures, theories of language acquisition and representation, and research findings in these areas.

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Question 1
Perea, Acha, & Carreiras (2009) investigated the reading
comprehension of text messages and found that:
orthographically based text messages were comprehended just
as effectively as normal text.
phonetically based text messages were comprehended just as
effectively as normal text.
both orthographically- and phonetically based text messages
were comprehended just as effectively as normal text.
neither orthographically- nor phonetically based text messages
were comprehended just as effectively as normal text.

2. Question 2
Which of these is NOT one of the stages of language production?
planning
assembly
self-monitoring
conceptualization
Question 3
“Greg had such a bad night out at the bar that he decided to buy
a new cue stick.” The inference that Greg had a bad night
because he shot billiards poorly is a ________. This inferred fact
________ represented as prominently as if it had actually been
presented.
a bridging inference; would not be
an elaborative inference; would not be
a bridging inference; would be

3. an elaborative inference; would be
Question 4
Place of articulation is to manner of articulation as ________ is to
________.
release; vibration
vocal cords; air flow
interrupt; stop
where; how
Question 5
All of the following statements are true about “motherese”
EXCEPT:
it tends to be higher pitched than normal speech.
it is found across many different languages.
it features exaggerated ups and downs in pitch.
it tends to be faster than normal speech.

4. Question 6
Which of these is NOT one of the levels of discourse
representation?
situation model
surface code
text base
analog code
Question 7
When children lie and deceive their parents to keep out of
trouble, they are using which design feature of language?
Arbitrariness
specialization
displacement
prevarication

5. Question 8
Which of the statements about the mental lexicon and lexical
access is true?
Only one meaning of an ambiguous word (e.g., bank) is
activated upon word presentation.
Low-frequency words are more quickly accessed than are high-
frequency words.
For bilinguals, a given concept has only one entry in the mental
lexicon.
The mental lexicon is part of semantic memory.
Question 9
Chomsky’s approach to how we engage in language is termed:
transformational grammar.
constraint-based grammar.
phonetic grammar.
syntactic based grammar.
Question 10

6. You are taking a test about language. Your ability to think about
language in order to complete the test is an example of which
design feature?
productivity
arbitrariness
reflectiveness
semanticity
Question 11
About how many phonemes make up American English?
10
25
45
105
Question 12

7. The most impressive evidence that animals are indeed capable
of learning language comes from the research done with:
Kanzi.
Alex.
Rockie.
Washoe.
Question 13
The story grammar approach basically applies which notion
(from sentence comprehension) to the comprehension of
stories and larger units of discourse?
case grammar
parsing
morphology
constraint-based grammar
Question 14

8. What is parsing?
the process of accessing word meaning
the process of converting syntax into semantics
the process of identifying the component elements of a
sentence
the process of mapping the look of a word onto the sound of a
word
Question 15
Anaphors are more likely to result in the successful retrieval of
an appropriate antecedent when:
the antecedent has occurred recently.
the antecedent received first mention.
both factors mentioned in a and b are important.
neither factor mentioned in a and b are important.
Question 16
______ represents a phonetic difference (but not a phonemic
difference).

9. The “g” in dog and the “g” in log
The “d” in dog and the “l” in log
The “t” in pit and the “th” in with
The “p” in pit and the “s” in sit
Question 17
In their research with Kanzi and other bonobo chimps, Savage-
Rumbaugh and colleagues have investigated whether language
can be acquired in the form of:
American Sign Language.
Braille.
motioning.
lexigrams.
Question 18
High frequency words like robin receive _____ fixation as/than
low-frequency words like penguin.

10. the same amount of
more
less
Question 19
Which of these describes the bottom-up processes in reading?
Reading is aided by expectations.
Reading is aided by context.
Reading is aided by other words.
Reading requires analysis of the printed symbols.
Question 20
Dyslexics have particular trouble:
reading words in the correct order.
recognizing words when they hear them.
mapping the look of a word onto its sound.

11. performing normally on standard measures of intelligence.
Question 21
Rayner, White, Johnson, and Liversedge (2006) examined
fixation times for words that were normal or jumbled. They
found that:
words with the internal letters transposed had the longest
fixation times.
words with the initial letter transposed had the longest fixation
times.
fixation times for normal words and for words with ending
letters transposed were the same.
there was no difference between words with internal, ending,
or beginning letters transposed.
Question 22
The concept of a ________ comes from Bartlett's classic research
on story recall.
story grammar
proposition

12. script
schema
Question 23
Gricean maxims in language indicate that our conversational
partners should conform to all of the following
EXCEPT:
avoidance of ambiguity.
relevance.
grammatical correctness.
truthfulness.
Question 24
All of the following statements are true about “motherese”
EXCEPT:
it tends to be higher pitched than normal speech.
it is found across many different languages.
it features exaggerated ups and downs in pitch.

13. it tends to be faster than normal speech.
Question 25
Which of these is NOT an assumption of the construction-
integration model of text comprehension?
We encode ideas from texts as propositions.
Ideas from a text, once encoded, are organized hierarchically.
We use working memory to construct the text representation.
The more propositions in a text, the more easily we
comprehend it.
Question 26
Pinker proposes that in order to “morph” words into different
forms (i.e., past tense), we have:
one system that is associative; we encode associations between
the past and present tense, and use them to retrieve one
another.

14. one system that operates via rules; we use these rules (e.g.,
“add an -s to make a plural”) to morph words.
two systems; we use the rule system for exceptions, and the
associative system for non-exceptions.
two systems; we use the rule system for non-exceptions, and
the associative system for exceptions.
Question 27
The design feature of language that allows us to communicate
ideas that are remote in space and time is:
discreteness.
specialization.
productivity.
displacement.
Question 28
Luo, Johnson, & Gallo (1998) tested whether
“pseudohomophones” (e.g., “brane”) would show effects of
semantic relatedness. In other words, would the letter string
“brane” prime a related concept (e.g., neuron)?
What did they find?

15. That access to the mental lexicon was most probably direct.
Pseudohomophones primed only the actual word (e.g., “brain,”
in this example).
Pseudohomophones did not prime related concepts.
Pseudohomophones did prime related concepts.
Question 29
The difficulty in processing garden-path sentences:
confirms that the default structure in English syntax tends to be
subject-object-verb.
is evidence against the garden-path approach.
is evident in reading times, but not in eye movements.
applies to blind readers of Braille.