How is the concept of gist relevant when you are planning to speak a sentence?
a. The gist of a sentence automatically solves the linearization problem.
b. The gist of a sentence frequently coordinates the prosody of the utterance.
c. The gist organizes several interrelated concepts, in order to produce discourse.
d. The gist is the overall meaning of a message that we want to convey.
Question 2According to the discussion of word production in Chapter10,
a. the most challenging aspect of language production is the motor movements required to produce the various phonemes.
b. researchers agree that, during language production, we simultaneously retrieve information about three components of languagegrammar, meaning, and sound.
c. if you try to produce a particular noun, you will often retrieve it more effectively if you make a hand gesture.
d. most college-educated North Americans have a speaking vocabulary of about 25,000 words.
Question 3According to Dell's explanation, a slip-of-the-tongue occurs because of
a. unconscious anxiety about the content of speech production.
b. classical conditioning.
c. interference from inappropriate sounds that are highly active.
d. a variant of the Stroop effect.
Question 4According to Dell's theory of speech errors,
a. slips of the tongue occur because each sound can be activated by several different words.
b. slips of the tongue tend to involve words from different syntactic categories.
c. slips of the tongue occur because people focus too closely on the pragmatics of language.
d. slips of the tongue occur because we pay too much attention to word choice.
Question 5Chapter 10 described a study in which participants listened to definitions of concrete nouns, and they were asked to produce the correct noun. The participants were more likely to say the correct noun if
a. their hand movements were restricted.
b. their hand movements were unrestricted.
c. they were told to pronounce the noun as quickly as possible.
d. they were told to pronounce the noun as slowly as possible.
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