Psyc 208 Chapter 11: Language

The principle of late closure states that this sentence would first be parsed into which of the following phrases?

"Because he always jogs a mile"

As participants heard the word "bugs," they completed a lexical decision task to a test stimulus flashed on a screen. To which of the following words would you expect participants to take the longest to respond to?

Sky

Syntax is the

rules for combining words into sentences

The crucial question in comparing garden path and constrain-based approaches to parsing is ____________________ is involved.

when semantics

Which of the following is the best example of a garden path sentence?

Before the police stopped the Toyota disappeared into the night.

Which property below is NOT one of the characteristics that makes human language unique?

Communication

Lexical ambiguity studies show that people access ambiguous words based on

The meaning dominance of each definition of the word

From the perspective of the listener, as a person speaks, each sentence often is characterized by ________ until the sentence is completed.

ambiguity

In the lexical decision task, participants are asked to

decide whether a string of letters is a word or a non-word.

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.

hierarchical

B.F. Skinner, the modern champion of behaviorism, proposed that language is learned through

reinforcement

The participants' response times were longer for ____________________ because of the ____________________ effect.

trial 1; word frequency