01 Oct Which of these is a garden-path sentence?
Which of these is a garden-path sentence?
They are cooking rocks.
The horse raced past the barn fell.
John went to the grocery store and bought a car.
Susan walked up the garden path.
Question 2The sentence, “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” violates:
the rules of both syntax and semantics.
the rules of syntax but not semantics.
neither the rules of syntax nor semantics.
the rules of semantics, but not syntax.
Question 3The story grammar approach basically applies which notion (from sentence comprehension) to the
comprehension of stories and larger units of discourse?
case grammar
parsing
morphology
constraint-based grammar
Question 4Which of these describes the bottom-up processes in reading?
Reading is aided by expectations.
Reading is aided by context.
Reading is aided by other words.
Reading requires analysis of the printed symbols.
Question 5The sentences, “John is easy to please,” and “It is easy to please John” are:
identical in both surface and deep structure.
identical in deep structure, but differ in surface structure.
identical in surface structure, but differ in deep structure.
different in both deep and surface structure.
Question 6Chomsky’s approach to how we engage in language is termed:
transformational grammar.
constraint-based grammar.
phonetic grammar.
syntactic based grammar.
Question 7Place of articulation is to manner of articulation as ________ is to ________.
release; vibration
vocal cords; air flow
interrupt; stop
where; how
Question 8Anaphors are more likely to result in the successful retrieval of an appropriate antecedent when:
the antecedent has occurred recently.
the antecedent received first mention.
both factors mentioned in a and b are important.
neither factor mentioned in a and b are important.
Question 9What is parsing?
the process of accessing word meaning
the process of converting syntax into semantics
the process of identifying the component elements of a sentence
the process of mapping the look of a word onto the sound of a word
Question 10Misheard word boundaries, which often make understanding song lyrics difficult on the first few times you hear a song (and sometimes longer!) have been dubbed:
Singing Bees.
Mondegreens.
Lyrical Errors.
Earbugs.
Question 11Recent research comparing the number of words used by male and female speakers:
reveals that males use over three times as many words in their speech as females.
reveals that females use over three times as many words in their speech as males.
reveals little difference in the number of words used by males and females.
The number of words in natural conversation has never been measured.
Question 12About how many phonemes make up American English?
10
25
45
105
Question 13A ______ is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning.
phone
phoneme
morpheme
word
Question 14Word fixations typically last around ____.
2 seconds
1 second
¾ second
¼ second
Question 15This structure-building process involves using world knowledge and linguistic knowledge to relate new
information to information that’s already been encoded:
laying a foundation
mapping
shifting
suppression
