You hear that a friend works in a small machinery store, and you do not know whether small describes the size of the store or the size of the machinery in the store. This situation is called
a. indirect access.
b. a nested structure.
c. pragmatics.
d. ambiguity.
Question 2Suppose that you are working with an elderly woman who had a stroke. She is looking at her radio, and you ask her if the radio is broken. With great effort, she says, Not. . .working. Based on this information, you would most likely suspect t
a. pragmatic difficulties.
b. Broca's aphasia.
c. Wernicke's aphasia.
d. retrograde amnesia.
Question 3When a sentence in a written passage contains an ambiguous word,
a. people typically do not notice the ambiguity until they have finished reading the entire sentence.
b. people apparently access only the best-known meaning of that word.
c. people are highly unlikely to notice that the word may be ambiguous.
d. people typically pause while they process the ambiguous word.
Question 4Suppose that you ask a stranger what time it is, and he produces several wordy sentences that don't seem to make sense. Without knowing additional information, you would suspect that he has
a. Wernicke's aphasia.
b. Broca's aphasia.
c. retrograde amnesia.
d. dyslexia.
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