The word frequency effect refers to the fact that we respond more
a. slowly to low-frequency words than high-frequency words.
b. slowly to letters appearing in non-words than letters appearing in words.
c. quickly to letters that appear multiple times in a word than just once in a word.
d. quickly to phonemes that appear multiple times in a word than just once in a word.
Question 2When the front part of a sentence can be interpreted more than one way, but the end of the sentence clarifies which meaning is correct, we say that the sentence is an example of
a. parsing.
b. temporary ambiguity.
c. speech segmentation.
d. lexical priming.
Question 3Pollack and Pickett's experiment on understanding speech found that when participants were presented with individual words taken out of conversations (single words presented alone with no context), they could identify
a. 100 of the words spoken by their own voices.
b. 50 of the words spoken by their own voices.
c. 50 of the words spoken by others with an accent similar to theirs.
d. none of the words spoken by others.
Question 4When we look at a record of the physical energy produced by conversational speech in a person's native language, we see that the speech signal
a. has breaks between phonemes.
b. has breaks between morphemes.
c. has breaks between words.
d. is continuous.
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