Quiz Questions 6-9 Flashcards
What kind of linguistic functions are mostly attributed to the right hemisphere?
Perception of prosody, or patterns of rhythm, stress, & intonation
Which type of aphasia is characterized by a slow degradation of language abilities over time?
Primary progressive aphasia
Which type of aphasia is characterized by fluent nonsensical speech with a occasionally made up words?
Wernicke’s aphasia
Which type of aphasia is characterized by slow, labored, telegraphic speech without a lot of syntactic connector words?
Broca’s aphasia
Which of the following statements correctly distinguishes between Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia?
People with Broca’s aphasia are aware of their difficulties but people with Wernicke’s aphasia don’t seem to be aware of any problem
Which type of aphasia is characterized by fairly normal production and comprehension but an inability to repeat word-for-word?
Conduction aphasia
When we comprehend sentences, we not only have to understand the words but we have to understand how the words fit together in the sentence. This process is called _______.
syntactic parsing
The sentence “Although Yosef was bathing the dog ran around in circles” contains an example of what kind of ambiguity?
temporary
By the time children start school, they no longer make mistakes like “I goed to the store” or “I likes that dog.” This is an example of natural acquisition of __________.
This is the type of grammar that psycholinguists care about studying.
descriptive
In the sentence “Although Yosef was bathing the dog ran around in circles,” the ambiguous part of the sentence is:
(Hint: The ambiguity occurs before any confusion or restructuring arises.)
the dog
In the sentence, “Although Yosef was bathing the dog ran around in circles,” the disambiguating part of the sentence is:
ran
Describe the principle of minimal attachment of the garden path model of sentence processing. Describe the ambiguity in the example sentence “The reporter saw the girl with binoculars.” Then describe how minimal attachment would operate on the sentence
The principle of minimal attachment is choosing a sentence with the fewest nodes, which can be shown through a tree and counting each part of the sentence. Minimal attachment says to choose the interpretation that is simpliest. The ambiguity in the example sentence is “the girl” because when the reader gets to “with”, there is now confusion because the sentence can be interpretated in multiple ways. Minimal attachment would say to pick the version where the reporter was using binoculars to see the girl, not the version where the girl had the binoculars because it is more complex.
Approximately how many languages currently exist in the world?
7,000-8,000
Which of the following models correctly predicts that backward translation (L2–>L1) will be faster than forward translation (L1–>L2)?
Revised Hierarchical Model
Imagine you are planning to do an experiment with bilingual participants. Which type of assessment might you use to characterize your sample? (select all that apply)
Ask participants to self-report their proficiency in each language.
Ask participants when and how they learned each of their languages
If one learns a second language after the first, it is called the L2 and it is definitely the nondominant language
false
Which model of bilingual memory suggests that bilinguals must always translate L2 words into the L1 in order to understand their meaning?
Word Association Model
