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6. which view draws heavily from Grice's (1975) maxims of speech?

  • three stage view
  • single stage view

7. Generally at 6 months, children are...

  • babbling
  • producing full sentences
  • producing first full words
  • producing very simple sentences

8. which of these is more likely to conclude that computers can be conscious?

  • Turing test
  • Chinese room argument

9. the study by Motley & Baars (1979) provides evidence for the idea that speech errors are caused by Freudian slips - true or false?

  • true (to an extent)
  • false
  • true

10. what is surface dyslexia?

  • when the lexical identification route is impaired
  • when the grapheme-phoneme conversion route is impaired

11. according to the immediacy of interpretation principle, what would happen if the word 'barber' in the sentence "the friend talked as the barber trimmed the moustache after lunch" was replaced with 'person'?

  • nothing would happen
  • fixation time for the word 'moustache' would increase
  • fixation time for the word 'moustache' would decrease

12. Phonological acquisition refers to...

  • how listeners make sense of sound
  • how modification of a word changes it's meaning
  • how listeners understand word meaning
  • how listeners understand the rules of language

13. what is the consonant-vowel rule?

  • consonants never swap, but vowels do
  • consonants only swap with consonants, and vowels with vowels
  • consonants can swap with consonants or vowels
  • vowels never swap, but consonants do

14. ____ is a language developed by children exposed to ____.

  • sign language / creole
  • pidgin / creole
  • creole / pidgin
  • pidgin / sign language

15. "talk about red trape" - what is this an example of?

  • syntactic error
  • freudian slip
  • phoneme error
  • lexical speech error

16. the pre alphabetic phase is when...

  • children learn a link between salient visual features of a word and either how it sounds, or what it means.
  • the lexical identification route is fully developed
  • children acquire partial knowledge of grapheme-phoneme conversion correspondences
  • children can read words they have never seen before

17. according to research by Seidenberg et al. (1984), which route is faster?

  • orthographical lexicon --> lexical identification --> phonology
  • orthography --> grapheme-phoneme conversion --> phonology

18. The Cognitivism approach...

  • emphasises the importance of cognitive maturation in language acquisition. It predicts that language is limited by cognitive deficit.
  • emphasises the importance of genes in language acquisition. It predicts that language is robust to cognitive deficits or impoverished input.
  • emphasises the importance of the environment in language acquisition. It predicts that language follows the richness of input.

19. syntactic ambiguity refers to...

  • when sentence structure is unclear
  • when word meaning is unclear

20. Generally at 12 months, children are...

  • producing very simple sentences
  • producing full sentences
  • producing first full words
  • babbling