ENG511 Midterm Quiz from Assessments

ENG511

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Maha Malik

1. Long-term memory is divided into semantic memory and ___________memory. (episodic)
2. We are not able to store more than seven words in our working memory. (False)
3. Our ____________ memory deals with personally experienced facts. (episodic)
4. The memories related to our childhood are the part of our _______________ memory. (semantic)
5. Connectionism is _________________ (Parallel processing)
6. Semantic memory holds general knowledge, whereas episodic memory stores our experience from our personal perspective. (incorrect)
7. In _____________________ information at the higher levels may influence processing at the lower levels. (top-down processing)
8. We receive auditory information, convert it into a neural signal and process the phonetic feature information. (Bottom-up)
9. Speech production is a product of nature and nurture. (Correct)
10. When we use stored information about language and the world to make sense of the speech, it is a _________________ process. (Top-down)
11. The phonetic segment is converted into a phoneme, and phonological rules are applied to the sound sequence. (Phonological level)
12. According to motor theory, infants can hear certain phonetic distinctions well before they are able to produce them. (True)
13. The perception of continuous speech, clearly indicates that word recognition is influenced by prosodic factors such as stress and intonational patterns. (True)
14. The visual stimulus is represented more abstractly as an identity separate from its physical manifestation is called ___________ of written language. (letter level)
15. At word level, the features and letters are recognized as a familiar word. (Correct)
16. Psycholinguists investigate the brain mechanism associated with language and the social rules involved in language use. (Incorrect)
17. Psycholinguists investigate the brain mechanism associated with language and the social rules involved in language use. (True)
18. The diversity of how we use language is daunting for ____________ who wish to study a language. (Psycholinguists)
19. Is this statement correct or incorrect? Language comprehension deals with the perception and understanding of speech and written language. (Incorrect)
20. Choose the correct option. The study of psycholinguistics is part of the field of _________science. (cognitive)
21. An integration of the fields of psychology and linguistics is called ________.
22. Halliday and Hasan (1976) define ____________ as referring to ‘‘the range of possibilities
23. Comprehension of connected discourse does not depend less on the meanings of the individual
24. Reference is a ____________relation whereby information needed for the interpretation of one
25. The acceptability of discourse depends on the coherent relationship between its segments. (correct)
26. When subjects were in the TOT state, they retrieved but rejected similar-sounding word (True)
27. Tip-of -the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon occurs, when we are quite successful at retrieving a particular word and can remember something about how it sounds. (incorrect)
28. According to which of the following views, do the linguists consider phonology to be different from the rest of the language faculty, belonging to the Periphery rather than the Core? (Isolative view)
29. Phonology is a laboratory science, and linguists argues for the adoption of scientific methodology to test formal is a __________________ view. (Integrational)
30. The advantage of using syntactic categories is that we can formulate grammatical rules in terms of categories rather than lexical items. (Correct)
31. Agrammatic patients frequently omit __________________ from their sentences while preserving open-class words somewhat better. (closed-class words)
32. Morphemes are the smallest unit of meaning in a language. A word cannot consist of a single morpheme. (False)
33. Inflectional morphemes are involved when a__________ morpheme is added to a free morpheme to express grammatical contrasts in sentences. (bound)
34. Our ability to form various alternative forms of root words effectively means that there is a limit to the number of new words in a language. (Incorrect)
35. The jargon terminology may be taught directly depending on the grade and the cognitive level of the student. (True)
36. The usage-based constructivist theory assumes that the child has no specialized knowledge of language or syntax, and must learn this, on the basis of positive input alone. (Correct)
37. When a word contains both inflectional and derivational morphemes, the ______________ morphemes are applied first. (derivational)
38. The generative approach to language acquisition is the usage-based account of language acquisition. (False)
39. Linguists, philosophers, and psychologists have identified several important aspects of word meaning. (Correct)
40. The relationship between words and things in the world is termed as the ____________of a word. (reference)
41. A semantic ____________is a graphic notation for representing knowledge in patterns of interconnected nodes and arcs. (network)
42. Which of the following include mechanism, such as marker passing or attached procedures, which can perform inferences, pass messages, or search for patterns and associations? (Executable networks)