Language

Which of the following describes the property of language that allows users to produce novel utterances within the confines of its structure?

What is the smallest unit of speech sound that can be used to distinguish one utterance from another in a given language?

How many words does the lexicon of an average adult speaker of English contain, approximately?

What is coarticulation in speech perception?

What is the phonemic-restoration effect?

In semantics, what is the difference between denotation and connotation?

What is the systematic way in which words can be combined and sequenced to make meaningful phrases and sentences called?

According to Noam Chomsky's theory, what is the term for the underlying syntactical structure that links various phrase structures through transformation rules?

Thematic roles describe the ways in which items can be used in the context of communication. What is the thematic role for the 'doer' of an action?

What are the two basic kinds of processes that novice readers must master when learning to read?

During reading, the eye moves in rapid sequential movements as it fixates on successive clumps of text. What are these movements called?

What is the word-superiority effect?

Which of the following processes is NOT typically impaired in individuals with dyslexia?

What is discourse in the context of psycholinguistics?

In Walter Kintsch's model of text comprehension, what are the thematically crucial propositions that remain in working memory longer called?

What is a bridging inference in discourse comprehension?

According to the study by Anderson and Pichert, what information did participants recall more of when they read a story about a house from the perspective of a prospective cat burglar?

Which principle of word meaning states that meanings of words are determined by conventions and have a meaning upon which people agree?

How many phonemes per second can a person perceive in a language in which they are fluent?

What is the term for a variety of a language distinguished by features such as vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation, often associated with a particular region?

Which of the following describes the McGurk effect?

What is the primary focus of descriptive grammar, as used by psycholinguists?

The average adult reads prose at what speed?

What is the average number of characters that saccadic movements leap between successive fixations during reading?

According to the interactive-activation model of word recognition, what are the three levels of processing that follow visual input?

What is the typical result of the sentence-superiority effect?

Which approach to teaching reading involves teaching children to recognize whole words without analyzing the sounds that make them up?

What is the minimalist hypothesis regarding inference making during reading?

Which of the following is an example of a noun phrase?

In the study of brain lesions and word meaning, patients who had trouble recognizing animate things like animals typically had damage in brain regions involved in what type of processing?

The view of speech perception as 'ordinary' suggests that we use the same processes for perceiving speech as we do for other sounds. This view emphasizes template-matching and what other type of process?

How many phonemes does the North American English language have?

What is the term for the entire set of morphemes in a given language or a person's linguistic repertoire?

A study found that when participants read a text from the perspective of a homebuyer, they remembered more about the house's condition. This study provides an example of how comprehension is influenced by:

What does a sentence's verb phrase, or predicate, contain?

In a study of syntactical priming, participants who read the sentence 'Amanda carried Fernando the package' were more likely to rate which of the following test sentences as grammatically correct?

What is the primary characteristic of speech errors that provides evidence for our mental classification of words into syntactic categories?

Phrase-structure grammar analyzes the ambiguous sentence 'The girl looked at the boy with the telescope' in two different ways. What does the ambiguity depend on?

How much of their vocabulary should someone know to grasp the meaning of a sample of text with ease, according to some studies?

Dyslexia is often associated with hypoactivation (too little activation) in which area of the brain compared with regular readers?

What does the linguistic property of being 'structured at multiple levels' mean?

In a study on the sentence-superiority effect, a degraded word like 'window' was more easily recognized when it was:

What does a person with acquired dyslexia have difficulty with?

About what percentage of content words (nouns, verbs, etc.) do readers fixate on while reading a text?

What is the process called by which we translate sensory information, like written words, into a meaningful representation based on our understanding of word meanings?

According to the chapter, a sentence like 'The man hunted the lion' has a different meaning from 'The lion hunted the man' primarily due to a difference in:

What did the study by Zwaan and colleagues (2002) find when subjects read about an eagle sitting in its nest and were then shown images?

Which of the following properties of language is demonstrated by the fact that different languages use different words (e.g., 'tree', 'Baum', 'árbol') to refer to the same concept?

What is the term for the study of language structure and change?

Which one of the six properties of language accounts for the evolution of modern English from Middle English and Old English?