Exam 9: Language

People who are bilingual show __________ intelligence compared to people who speak one language.

Animals possess the ability to __________.

In sentence production,information that is more readily available generally occurs earlier.

Mental lexicon includes __________.

Only the left hemisphere is involved in language processing.

The disruption (a loss of all or some)of previously intact language skills caused by a brain-related disorder or injury is __________.

The loss of the ability to comprehend language is associated with ________ aphasia.

In the case grammar approach,a semantic case is the same thing as a case role.

With sufficient exposure,the ERPs to nonsense words look like ERPs to meaningful words.

The extensiveness of your knowledge of the rules of permissible sound combinations in English refers to your __________.

Identify the three basic and two additional levels of analysis that are used in language comprehension: 1.PhonologY 2._______________ 3.____________

Any theory of speech recognition must account for both data-driven and conceptually driven processing.

Exposure to a syntactic structure can prime future use of that structure.

Sapir and Whorf proposed that the language you know shapes the way you think about events in the world around you; this phenomenon is known as __________.

The sounds of language are graphically illustrated in __________.

Understanding productivity is argued to be the key to understanding language.

Spreading activation is a linguistic universal.

What is the name of the idea that there is no direct correspondence between the words of a language and the thing it represents?

The smallest meaningful unit of language is called a ____________.

Agraphia is an inability to do mathematical computations.