Chapter 11 Quiz Part 1
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Question 1
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From the perspective of the listener, as a person speaks, each sentence often is characterized by ________
until the sentence is completed.
entrainment
heuristics
ambiguity
tonics
Question 2
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When two people engage in a conversation, if one person produces a specific grammatical construction in
his or her speech and then the other person does the same, this phenomenon is referred to as
syntactic priming.
garden pathing.
anaphoric inferencing.
phonemic restoration.
Question 3
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Which of the following terms best describes the concept of entrainment?
Similarity
Cooperation
Isolation
Understanding
Question 4
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Dictionaries commonly list the multiple definitions of a particular word in a numbered list, with the first definition as #1, the next definition as #2, and so on. Which concept does this reflect?
Meaning dominance
Positional inference
Lexical priming
Object-relative construction
Question 5
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Language consists of smaller components, like words, that can be combined to form larger ones, like phrases, to create sentences, which themselves can be components of a larger story. This demonstrates the ____________________
property of language.
parallel
relational
propositional
hierarchical
Question 6
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Within the realm of conversational speech, knowledge refers to the
tendency to see relationships between spoken concepts even when those relationships do not exist.
meaning of a conversation.
rules for combining spoken words into sentences.
previously understood information that we bring into the conversation.
Question 7
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Evidence that language is a social process that must be learned comes from the fact that when deaf children find themselves in an environment where there are no people who speak or use sign language, they
demonstrate compensatory regeneration of lost auditory neural pathways.
invent a sign language themselves.
start speaking out loud even though they cannot hear themselves.
lose the ability to communicate in any way.
Question 8
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Which property below is NOT one of the characteristics that makes human language unique?
Hierarchical structure
It involves arrangement of a sequence of symbols
Governed by rules
Communication
Question 9
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Ron is an avid reader. He has a large vocabulary because every time he comes across a word he doesn’t know, he looks it up in the dictionary. Ron encounters “wanderlust” in a novel, reaches for the dictionary,
and finds out this word means “desire to travel.” The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron’s
syntactical capacity.
lexicon.
parser.
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