01 Oct Which of these is a garden-path sentence?

Which of these is a garden-path sentence?

 

  They are cooking rocks.

 

  The horse raced past the barn fell.

 

  John went to the grocery store and bought a car.

 

  Susan walked up the garden path.

 

Question 2The sentence, “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” violates:

 

  the rules of both syntax and semantics.

 

  the rules of syntax but not semantics.

 

  neither the rules of syntax nor semantics.

 

  the rules of semantics, but not syntax.

 

 Question 3The 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 4Which 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 5The sentences, “John is easy to please,” and “It is easy to please John” are:

 

  identical in both surface and deep structure.

 

  identical in deep structure, but differ in surface structure.

 

  identical in surface structure, but differ in deep structure.

 

  different in both deep and surface structure.

 

 Question 6Chomsky’s approach to how we engage in language is termed:

 

  transformational grammar.

 

  constraint-based grammar.

 

  phonetic grammar.

 

  syntactic based grammar.

 

 Question 7Place of articulation is to manner of articulation as ________ is to ________.

 

  release; vibration

 

  vocal cords; air flow

 

  interrupt; stop

 

  where; how

 

 Question 8Anaphors 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 9What 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 10Misheard word boundaries, which often make understanding song lyrics difficult on the first few times you hear a song (and sometimes longer!) have been dubbed:

 

  Singing Bees.

 

  Mondegreens.

 

  Lyrical Errors.

 

  Earbugs.

 

 Question 11Recent research comparing the number of words used by male and female speakers:

 

  reveals that males use over three times as many words in their speech as females.

 

  reveals that females use over three times as many words in their speech as males.

 

  reveals little difference in the number of words used by males and females.

 

  The number of words in natural conversation has never been measured.

 

 Question 12About how many phonemes make up American English?

 

  10

 

  25

 

  45

 

  105

 

Question 13A ______ is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning.

 

  phone

 

  phoneme

 

  morpheme

 

  word

 

 Question 14Word fixations typically last around ____.

 

  2 seconds

 

  1 second

 

  ¾ second

 

  ¼ second

 

 Question 15This structure-building process involves using world knowledge and linguistic knowledge to relate new

 

information to information that’s already been encoded:

 

  laying a foundation

 

  mapping

 

  shifting

 

  suppression

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