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1-. ................................... document how a language is actually used by its native speakers.
(a) Prescriptive grammars (b) Descriptive grammars (c) Psycholinguistics
(d) Neurolinguistics
2- ........................................... is the actual use of linguistic knowledge
(a) Linguistic competence
(b) Linguistic performance
(c) Language creativity
(d) None of the previous items is right
3- Language processing is subconscious, this means:
(a) It happens without the mental capacities being fully active
(b) The mental capacities have to fully active during language processing (c) Language processing is not necessary when speaking
(d) None of the previous items is correct
4- Lexical entries are organised .......... in the brain
(a)according to their meaning and sound
(b) alphabetically
(c)according to length of the word
(d) chronologically
5- The tip of the tongue phenomenon means:
(a)being unable to remember words due to head injury
(b) being unable to produce words due to head injury (c)remembering some details about a word, but not the word itself (d) remembering the meaning of a word in short-term memory
6- In the mind, lexical entries are organised according to:
(a)Their meaning
(b) Their sound
(c)Their meaning and sound (d) Alphabetically
7- The tip of the tongue phenomenon is:
(a) Remembering words
(b) Organising words
(c) Remembering some details about a word but forgetting the word (d) None of the previous
8- Lexical decision and priming experiments are conducted to:
(a) Check peoples’ fluency
(b) Check peoples’ response to potential threats (c) Check peoples’ communication skills
(d) Check peoples’ access to lexical entries
9- Which of the following is not an indication that a communication system is based in the biology of its users:
(a) Being species specific
(b) Being universal to members of the species (c) Being made of sounds and symbols
(d) Being affected by the environment
10- Aphasia is:
(a) A language impairment following an injury to the brain (b) Language fluency
(c) Language accuracy
(d) None of the previous
11- Which of the following is not one of the stages of speech production:
(a) Lexical retrieval
(b) Slip of the tongue
(c) Building simple sentence structure (d) Creating agreement relations
12- Bottom-up processing is:
(a) Using the acoustic signal to produce speech
(b) Using the acoustic signal to understand speech (c) Using the acoustic signal to create sign language (d) None of the above
13- Top-down processing is:
(a) Using contextual information to produce speech (b) Using the acoustic signal to understand speech
(c) Using contextual information to understand speech (d) Using acoustic signal to understand speech
14- Possible non-words are:
(a) Words which exist in the language but are not found in the dictionary
(b) Words which do not exist in the language but are found in the dictionary
(c) Words which can be added to a language because they do not violate its phonotactic
rules
(d) Words which cannot be added to a language because they violate its phonotactic rules
15- Impossible non-words
(a) Words which exist in the language but are not found in the dictionary
(b) Words which do not exist in the language but are found in the dictionary
(c) Words which can be added to a language because they do not violate its phonotactic rules (d) Words which cannot be added to a language because they violate its phonotactic rules
16- Clause boundary is:
(a) The location where a new clause begins
(b) The location where the speaker pauses
(c) The location where the hearer loses perception (d) None of the above is true
17- An ambiguous sentence is a sentence which:
(a) has one meaning
(b) has more than one meaning (c) does not have any meaning (d) none of the above is true
18- There are information which the parser uses to build structure, these information are: (a) Lexical information
(b) Prosodic information
(c) Non-linguistic information
(d) All of the above
19-Discourse is:
(a) Sets of sentences which are not connected to each other (b) Sets of sentences which are connected to each other
(c) A long sentence
(d) None of the above is true
20- When stored in long-term memory:
(a) Information about the sentence structure are lost (b) Meanings of many sentences are combined
(c) Inferences are added to representations of meaning (d) All of previous