Quiz Nine

Consider the sentence, "Because he always jogs a mile seems like a short distance to him." 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

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

Before the police stopped the Toyota disappeared into the night

Imagine you are interpreting a pair of sentences such as "The sidewalk was covered with ice" and ""Ramona fell down." The kind of inference we use to link these sentences together would most likely be a(n) _____ inference.

Causal

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

Yoda, a central character of the Star Wars movies created by George Lucas, has a distinctive way of speaking. His statement, "Afraid you will be," violates which property of the English language?

Language is a structure governed by rules

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.

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

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

Which of the following is NOT influenced by meaning?

Word frequency effect