Chapter 11 Quiz
Which of the following is NOT influenced by meaning?
Word frequency effect
Boxing champion George Foreman recently described his family vacations with the statement, "At our ranch in Marshall, Texas, there are lots of ponds and I take the kids out and we fish. And then of course, we grill them." That a reader understands "them" appropriately (George grills fish, not his kids!) is the result of a(n) _____ inference.
anaphoric
Most of the coherence in text is created by
inference
Chaz is listening to his grandma reminisce about the first time she danced with his grandpa 60 years ago. When his grandma says, "It seemed like the song would play forever," Chaz understands that it is more likely his grandma was listening to a radio playing and not a CD. This understanding requires Chaz use a(n) ____________
instrument inference
Lilo can't wait for school to start. This year is the first time she gets to take a foreign language class, and she is taking Japanese. Dr. Nabuto is a professor interested in studying how people learn additional languages later in life, and he is including Lilo's class in his research. Dr. Nabuto is most likely studying ___________
language acquisition
According to the situation model of text processing, ______
people create a mental representation of what the text is about in terms of people, objects, locations, and events
The interactionist approach to parsing states that ______
semantics is activated as a sentence is being read
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 ______
speech segmentation
The idea that the rules governing the grouping of words in a sentence is the primary determinant of the way a sentence is parsed is part of the _____ approach to parsing.
syntax-first
Brain imaging studies reveal that semantics and syntax are associated with which two lobes of the cerebral cortex?
the frontal and temporal lobes
Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study presented participants with different pictures for interpreting the sentence, "Put the apple on the towel in the box." Their results support _____
the interactionist approach to parsing