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
What factors affect comprehension?
Ambiguity
Negativity
Nested Structures
Passive Voice
All of the above
A,b,d
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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