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6. Anomia is an aphasic impairment where there are difficulties in retrieving words. It is characterized by
- use of circumlocutions
- susceptibility to cueing
- all of the answers
- strong frequency effects
7. The two dimensions of articulation shown on a vowel chart are:
- Rounded-unrounded, front-back
- High-low, front-back
- High-low, spread-unspread
- Rounded-unrounded, spread-unspread
8. Which of the following statements about the basilar membrane is TRUE?
- It responds equally well along its length to all audible frequencies
- It responds best to low frequencies at the basal end and to high frequencies at the apical end
- It is narrowest and stiffest at the basal end and widest and most elastic at the apical end
- It completes almost eight turns from the base to the apex
9. The spectrum of speech sounds is
- Encoded through the distribution of neural activity by place along the basilar membrane
- Discernible by humans, but not by other mammals
- Independent of the language of the speaker
- Conveyed to the brain only by neural responses in the vesbular system
10. Which of the following is characteristic of vowel undershoot?
- All vowels sound more like the high-front vowel /i/
- Tongue positions retreat towards the centre of the mouth cavity
- The tongue moves further towards the extremes of the mouth cavity
- It helps the listener to distinguish different vowels from one another
11. Bilateral damage to the primary auditory cortex results in
- All of the answers
- Deficits in recognising environmental and speech sounds
- Total deafness
- Partial deafness
12. Which of the following statements about lip configuration is FALSE?
- It plays a part only in the production of consonants
- It can be described as spread, rounded, or unrounded
- It affects the shape of the vocal tract
- It affects the length of the vocal tract
13. The spoken English words tichatti and ticapti differ in:
- The manner of articulation of the final consonant
- The number of phonemes they contain
- The manner of articulation of the final consonant
- All answers are correct
14. Combining a word (e.g. tigenerateti) with a word ending (e.g. tiionti) is an example of:
- morphology
- pragmatics
- phonetics
- phonology
15. Lateralization effects with visual stimuli (better performance when presented on one side of space) can be shown
- e. a and c
- c. in control participants when a stimulus is shown for less than 100 ms
- a. in people with a commissurotomy when a stimulus is shown for less than 100ms
- d. a and b
- b. in people with a commissurotomy disregarding how long the stimulus is shown for
16. In the case of word deafness
- speech sounds as a foreign language
- all of the above
- consonants are identified better than vowels
- performance on audiometric tests is abnormal
17. The auditory nerve in humans contains approximately _____ axons (nerve fibres)
- 2'800
- 28'000
- 300'000
- 1 million
18. Where is Wernicke's area
- Posterior superior temporal lobe
- Arcuate fasciculus
- Posterior inferior frontal lobe
- Anterior inferior temporal lobe
- Angular gyros
19. Which one is correct
- a. in most left handers the right hemisphere is dominant for speech;
- b. in most right handers the left hemisphere is dominant for speech;
- c. in both left and right handers the left hemisphere is dominant for speech.
- d. both a and b
20. Which problems are shared by referential and feature theories of meaning:
- which word to use depends on context;
- All of the below
- words are often defined by their association with other words;
- Some categories have unclear boundaries;