Quiz 10 Language

In the phonemic restoration effect, participants "fill in" the missing phoneme based on all of the following EXCEPT

a mental "skimming" of the lexicon to find likely words.

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

Language consists of smaller components, like words, that can be combined to form larger ones, like phrases. And, phrases can be combined to create sentences, which themselves can be components of a larger story. This demonstrates the _______ property of language.

hierarchical

Noam Chomsky proposed that

humans are genetically programmed to acquire and use language.

According to the idea of _____, when we read a sentence like, "Carmelo grabbed his coat from his bedroom and his backpack from the living room, walked downstairs, and called his friend Gerry," we create a map of Carmelo's apartment and keep track of his location as he moves throughout the apartment.

situation models

The word frequency effect refers to the fact that we respond more

slowly to low-frequency words than high-frequency words.

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

Lexical ambiguity studies show that people access ambiguous words based on

the meaning dominance of each definition of the word.

The word "bad" has ____ phoneme(s).

three

The crucial question in comparing syntax-first and interactionist approaches to parsing is ____ is involved.

when semantics