ENG511 Midterm Past Papers Spring 2025

ENG511

Mid-Term

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Maha Malik

Spring 2025

MCQS BY ZAINEE….

1. The three pioneering workers in early psycholinguistics are Paul Broca, Charles hocket and William levlet.
2. Children’s acquisition of language is done with no formal training.
3. Cohesive relations are un-structured.
4. The process of accessing and retrieving lexical information from memory is influenced by a number of factors.
5. Late closure strategy states that, wherever possible, we prefer to attach new items to the current constituent.
6. Figurative language is not merely an ornamental tool, rather it has become a powerful….? a) Way of communication b) Idea of contrast c) Conceptual tool
7. Genre is type of discourse research that has a narrative discourse.
8. Serial models assume that we begin with the overall idea of an utterance, followed by syntactic organization, content words, morphemes, and phonology.
9. Motor commands from the brain specify the target location for the articulation in the ? Vocal tract
10. The rules of proper conversation with the culture. Vary.
11. Some studies of gender differences reveal that males speak more and interrupt more than females.
12. means communication within the social institution of society. Institutional discourse (ans. not sure)
13. Grammatical morphemes are conspicuously in children’s early word combination. Observed
14. Cross-linguistics studies enable us to explore both universal and particular aspects of…? Language
15. In linguistic prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual --- segment. Phonetic (ans. Not sure)
16. We spontaneously interrupt our speech and correct ourselves. Self-repairing.
17. A speech error is a deviation from apparently intended form of an utterance.
18. Knowing how to use gestures and words to show off object make assertion and make requests etc. is called competence. Communicative

Q19. Steps in process of developing a processing system: a) Input b) Output c) Storage

1. All of these.
2. According to the usage-based constructivist theory, the child learns the knowledge of language and syntax through alone. Positive input
3. Sentence and clause types and nonfinite verbal are important in this research because they are directly related to complex, embedded syntax.
4. Which is not a speech-based sign language? American.

Q. Three Moves of Opening and Closing Phrase

Opening Moves:

•  Greeting (e.g., “Hello”)
•  Requesting/Offering Information (e.g., “Do you know...?” / “Are you looking for...?”)
•  Addressing directly (e.g., “Hey, Carl”)

Closing Moves:

•  Pre-closing statement (e.g., “OK”, “Well…”)
•  Summary or justification (e.g., “I have another meeting”)
•  Well-wishing/farewell (e.g., “Take care”, “Bye”)

Q. Motor Theory of Speech

Proposed by Liberman, it suggests speech perception is aided by articulatory knowledge—listeners perceive speech by internally referencing how it is produced.

Q. Interactive Account in Sentence Processing

This account suggests that all available information (lexical, contextual, discourse) is used simultaneously to interpret a sentence, contrasting with the modular view that uses syntax first.

Q. Three Levels of Written Language Processing

1. Feature Level – Recognize visual components (e.g., lines and curves of letters)
2. Letter Level – Recognize the abstract identity of letters
3. Word Level – Recognize full words and retrieve meaning, pronunciation, etc.

Q. Proposition Density & Its Importance

Proposition Density refers to the number of idea units (verbs, adjectives, prepositions, etc.) in a sentence. Higher density increases cognitive load and affects text comprehension, memory retention, and reading speed.