QUIZ 11
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.
Which term best reflects a musical composer who writes a film score in the key of E?
Tonic
Consider the following sentences: "Captain Ahab wanted to kill the whale. He cursed at it." These two sentences taken together provide an example of a(n)
anaphoric inference.
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 showed the importance of ____________________ in how we understand sentences in real-life situations.
environmental context
In New Guinea, tribes that had been isolated for centuries were found that they
had a large number of sophisticated language systems.
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.
Within the realm of conversational speech, knowledge refers to the
previously understood information that we bring into the conversation.
Coherence refers to the
representation of the text in a reader's mind so that information in one part of the text is related to information in another part of the text.
When two people engage in a conversation, if one person produces a specific grammatical construction in his or her speech and then the other person does the same, this phenomenon is referred to as
syntactic priming
Lexical ambiguity studies show that people access ambiguous words based on
the meaning dominance of each definition of the word.