ويش رايكم نحل مع بعض
Psycholinguistics
Questions prepared by;
Abu Bakr
Lecture 7
1. LADcan be definedas: a property of the ……………’s brain that gives it a tendency for acquiring language.
a. Human
b. Child
c. Adult
d. Teenager
2. LAD is….
a. External
b. Internal
c. Both
d. All false
3. Hearing begins to develop at around ……….weeks of pregnancy.
a. 8
b. 16
c. 18
d. 20
4. Thefetus starts to respond to auditory stimulation……
a. Before the development of hearing
b. Soon after the development of hearing
c. During the development of hearing
d. All possible
5. Human’ssensitivity to language start even before birth. This statement……
a. Can be argued
b. Cannot be argued
c. I disagree
d. All false
6. Infants(From birth to 12 months) have had access to the general prosody (the rhythm and intonation)….
a. Beforethey were born
b. After they were born
c. Soon after they were born
d. All false
7. Infants are able to recognize their mother’s voicebecause….
a. They can feel the special relation to their mothers
b. They are innocent and smart
c. They have had access to the general prosody
d. All false
8. Most children start to discriminate many phonemic contrasts at this stage. This stage is ……
a. Before birth
b. Before birth and till 6 months of age
c. From birth to 12 months
d. All false
9. Infants start to babble after the …..month.
a. 1
st
b. 2
nd
c. 4
th
d. 6
th
10. Children spenda few months in the holophrastic stage. Holophrastic stage means….
a. The stage of babbling
b. The stage of walking
c. One-word stage
d. Two-words stage
11. Holophrastic stage is ……
a. From birth to 12 months
b. Before birth and up to 6 months
c. From 12 up to 24 months
d. All false
12. In the(one-word stage), a one word, such as milk, can be used to convey the meaning of …..
a. Two words
b. One word
c. An entire phrase
d. All false
13. Soon after the child leaves the holophrastic stage, ………….acquisition speeds up rapidly.
a. Grammar
b. Phonetics
c. Vocabulary
d. Articulation
14. In average, the child acquires from 4 to 8new words …………in his/her pre-school years.
a. Everyday
b. Every week
c. Every month
d. Every three days
Lecture 8
1. At the age of …………years, children can take turns in conversations and maintain a topic over a limitednumber of conversational turns.
a. 2-3
b. 3-4
c. 8-9
d. All false
2. People acquire a mature ability to converse for the exchange of information in ….
a. Early childhood
b. Late childhood
c. Both
d. Neither
3. Communication skills are mastered at….
a. The age of 5
b. The age of 6
c. The age of 10
d. Atdifferent ages
4. Difference in communication skills can also be found across adult speakers of a language.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I don’t know
d. All false
5. In a later stage of language acquisition, people become aware that language isnot just a means of communication, but also an object(e.g. the ability to perceive speech as a string of phonological units).This is called…..
a. Meta-linguistic awareness
b. Meta-linguistic recognition
c. Linguistic competence
d. All false
6. There are ………….between first and second language acquisition.
a. Similarities
b. No similarities
c. Absolutely no differences
d. All false
7. Yet, there are limitations to SLA such as:
a. Slower pace of acquisition, as compared to first language acquisition.
b. Ultimate attainment
c. Both
d. Neither
8. Ultimate attainment means….
a. The ability to acquire the second language as natives
b. The learning of the secondlanguage stops in some stages
c. Both
d. Neither
9. People start to develop discourse ability in their late childhood, this includes:
a. Taking turns in conversations
b. Crying to express anger
c. Laughing to express joy
d. None of the previous is correct
Lecture 9
1. If you are a bilingualspeakers but you areconsulting only oneof the grammarsof the two languages, then you are in ……..mode.
a. Unilingual
b. Bilingual
c. Both
d. Neither
2. Unilingualmodeleads to production in…..
a. One of the two languages
b. Two languages
c. A third language
d. All true
3. When the bilingual’s two languages are being used in the same conversation, the speaker has access to both grammars and lexical items from both languages. In this case, the speaker is in ……mode
a. Unilingual
b. Bilingual
c. Both
d. Neither
4. Bilingual modemay lead to…..
a. Confusion
b. Code-switching
c. Coding-encoding
d. All false
5. Code-switchingis switching between two languages in …..conversation.
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
6. Speechproduction has two main stages. The first one is Planning, and the other one is called….
a. Over-planning
b. Back planning
c. Actual production
d. Virtual production
7. Planning has stages. When aword can be retrieved using two kinds of information: meaningor soundand the
speaker selects the appropriate word to the conversation, this stage is called…..
a. Building simple sentence structure
b. Creating agreement relations
c. Accessing the lexicon (lexical retrieval)
d. A and C
8. Grammatical encoding: Building a linguistic structure for the intended meaning.This stage of planning is called…..
a. Building simple sentence structure
b. Creating agreement relations
c. Accessing the lexicon (lexical retrieval)
d. Preparing a phonological representation
9. Subject-verb agreement is an example of a stage of planning called…..
a. Building simple sentence structure
b. Creating agreement relations
c. Accessing the lexicon (lexical retrieval)
d. A and C
10. Creating complex, multi-clausal sentencesis a stage of planning called….
a. Building simple sentence structure
b. Creating agreement relations
c. Building complex sentence structure
d. Accessing the lexicon (lexical retrieval)
11. The mental representation of a sentence that serves as input to thesystems responsible for articulation (speech, writing, or gestures) is phonological.This stage of planning is called….
a. Preparing a phonological representation
b. Building simple sentence structure
c. Creating agreement relations
d. Accessing the lexicon (lexical retrieval)
12. After the speech is planned, the brain gives instructions to (, ,) to produce speech
a. Vocaltract
b. Lungs
c. Tongue
d. Allthe mentioned speech organs
13. Lexical retrieval is
a. A stage in language perception
b. A stage in language production
c. A vocabulary experiment
d. None of the previous is correct
Lecture 10
1. Knowledge of the phonemic inventory of a language is necessary for……
a. Teaching
b. Learning
c. Thought
d. Perception
2. It iseasier for beginning language learners to understand material with subtitlesthan listening to them. This happens because…..
a. Native speakers talk is difficult to understand
b. Our ears are not ready yet to get it
c. Beginners are familiar with the phonemic inventory
d. A and C
3. The perception system is …………..because it uses additional information to the signal, such as lip movement, in the perception of speech.
a. Complicated
b. Vertical
c. Horizontal
d. Constructive
4. The processof using the acoustic signal (i.e. phonemes) to understand speechis called…..
a. Top-down processing
b. Button-up processing
c. Both
d. Neither
5. The process of using contextual information to understand speech.(e.g. sandstorm.. “…. …. … windows”) is called….
a. Top-down processing
b. Button-up processing
c. Both
d. Neither
6. Alanguage is not just phonemes. There are also …….information in the signal.
a. Vague
b. Clear
c. Super-natural
d. Suprasegmental
7. Examples of supersegmental information is…
a. Stress
b. Variations in duration
c. Amplitude(loudness)
d. All of the above mentioned
8. Supersegmentalinformationcan affect…..
a. Speech perception
b. Speech production
c. Acquisition
d. All false
9. Thewriting system of a languageis called….
a. Writhography
b. Orthography
c. Percepography
d. All false
10. Researchers have found that ………….play an important role in the perception of written texts.
a. Phonology
b. Orthography
c. Both
d. Neither
11. Knowledge of the phonemic inventory of a language is
a. Not necessary for perception
b. Necessary for perception
c. Necessary for production
d. Both B and C