Chomsky's approach to how we engage in language is termed:
a) transformational grammar.
b) constraint-based grammar.
c) phonetic grammar.
d) syntactic based grammar.
Question 2Top-down factors in discerning spoken word boundaries include:
a) previous knowledge of what the speaker is talking about.
b) metrical segmentation.
c) statistical regularities in the spoken word signal.
d) mondegreens.
Question 3Nygaard and Queen (2008) found that the emotional prosody of word pronunciation:
a) had no effect on word recognition.
b) facilitated word recognition, but only when the emotional prosody matched the tone of the word.
b) facilitated word recognition, but only when the emotional prosody mismatched the tone of the word.
b) facilitated word recognition in all cases.
Question 4The cohort model proposes that when we hear the word basketball, the first step in word recognition is:
a) activating all of the words that relate to the meaning of basketball.
b) activation of all of the words that look similar to the word basketball.
c) activation of no concepts at all except for the word basketball.
d) activation of all of the words that begin with the same sounds as basketball.
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