Exam 11: Language

According to Levelt's 1989) model of speech production, two main processing stages are involved in generating a meaningful utterance. In the stage, the speaker determines what he or she intends to express to the listener; in the stage, word choices and the grammatical role that each word will play are determined.

Which of the following is NOT true of infants' speech recognition abilities?

A patient's symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output. What is the most probable diagnosis?

Modular models of language comprehension argue for a high degree of interactivity between different specialized modules.

Segmenting the boundaries between words is a particularly difficult computational problem in

The mental lexicon is thought to be organized as a semantic network in which word meanings are connected to each other, as in the diagram here. Based on what you know about how strength of association between word meanings is represented in semantic networks, determine which of the following statements regarding the network is true.

What is the difference between Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia? Where are Broca's area and Wernicke's area located in the brain?

When you are shown the written word "neuroscience" and you read it aloud, you are translating information into information about this word.

Which of the following best describes the three main components of word or lexical processing in the correct order, according to most modular models of word recognition?

Which of the following statements does NOT describe agrammatic aphasics?

A normal adult speaker has passive knowledge of about 50,000 words.

You encounter an aphasic patient with language deficits resulting from brain injury. You are also likely to also observe hemiparesis on the side of the body, which would indicate that the hemisphere is especially critical to language function.

Animal calls were thought to be purely emotional. Which of the following findings with monkey calls does NOT contradict this view?

The term refers to the collective store of information about the semantics, syntax, orthography, and phonology of words.

What are the three stages of processing after a word is perceptually analyzed? Does this differ for visual and auditory processing? Why or why not?

The speech of people with Broca's aphasia is usually slow and effortful and consists of primarily concrete words, while words that serve grammatical functions are omitted. This type of speech output is called

What role does the right hemisphere play in language comprehension? Describe two experimental techniques that would allow you to dissociate the contribution of the right hemisphere from that of the left.

You receive a text message that reads "What time do you want to have lunch tomorrow night?" Which word would lead to an N400 for you?

How can the event-related potential ERP) technique be applied to language? Describe two ERP components that have been studied in a psycholinguistic context, and give examples of the kinds of stimuli that elicit them.

Which of the following sentences would a person with Broca's aphasia be most likely to misunderstand?