chap 11 mastery

Question 1

anaphoric inference

Answer 1

drawing a conclusion by connecting an object in one sentence to an object in another sentence

Question 2

instrument inference

Answer 2

drawing a conclusion about methods that occurs while reading text or listening to speech

Question 3

casual inference

Answer 3

drawing the conclusion that events described in one sentence were prompted by events in a previous sentence

Question 4

rule-based nature of language

Answer 4

idea that there are principles specifying the permissible ways for arranging words and phrases in a system of communication

Question 5

psycholinguistics

Answer 5

field concerned with the mental and emotional study of language

Question 6

lexicon

Answer 6

knowledge of what words mean, how they sound, and how they relate to other words

Question 7

semantics

Answer 7

meanings of words and sentences in a language

Question 8

lexical semantics

Answer 8

meaning of words

Question 9

word frequency effect

Answer 9

phenomenon of faster reading time for words that are highly common compared with unusual words

Question 10

speech segmentation

Answer 10

process of perceiving individual words within the continuous flow of words

Question 11

lexical ambiguity

Answer 11

situation when a word can have more than one meaning

Question 12

meaning dominance

Answer 12

situation where some definitions of words occur more frequently than others

Question 13

biased dominance

Answer 13

situation when a word has more than one meaning and one meaning is more likely

Question 14

balanced dominance

Answer 14

situation when a word has more than one meaning and all meanings are equally likely

Question 15

syntax

Answer 15

set of rules for combining words into sentences