Chapter 9 Language

Phase Structure emphasizes that sentences are constructed using a hierarchical structure called:

Chomsky Approach

Constituents

Grammar

Top-Down Processing

Our knowledge of the social rules that underlie language is called what?

Semantics

Social Norm

Pragmatics

Nested Knowledge

The most basic unit of language that has meaning is:

Morpheme

Phoneme

Pragmatics

Semantics

Ambiguity was closely tied with:

Behaviorism

Mental Imagery

Connectionism

Metamemory

Michael Tomasello believed that:

Language was modular

Children were born with innate language capabilities

Ambiguity produced desirable difficulties

None of the above

An individual is able to produce complete sentences but the words and structure of them don't make any sense. What may the individual suffering from?

Broca's Aphasia

Wernicke's Aphasia

Brodmann's Akinesia

Broca's Apraxia

What is discourse?

Writing larger than a sentence

Writing smaller than a sentence

The wrong path of dual route approach

A phenomenon that states readers can directly connect the written word with its meaning.

Reading requires how much of our cognitive processes?

55%

99%

It does not require cognitive processes but instead visuospatial processes

66%

The dual route approach includes which two routes?

Direct access & indirect access

Direct access & whole word access

Indirect access & whole word access

Whole word access & semantic access

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