12 Questions
What property of language allows for the creation of sentences of unlimited length?
Recursiveness
Which property of language refers to the ability to refer to abstract concepts or future events?
Displacement
What animal communication systems lack features like tense markers and parts of speech?
Dolphins
Which level of language organization involves the sound patterns of language?
Phonological level
What property of language states there is no inherent connection between the sound of a word and its meaning?
Arbitrariness
Which property of language allows it to be independent of auditory or speech systems?
Modality-independence
What are the two levels of processing proposed by Craik & Lockhart in 1972?
Shallow processing and deep processing
What is the term for information that stays in our memory for brief periods of time, approximately 10 to 15 seconds?
Short-term memory
Which type of long-term memory refers to autobiographical information that can be explicitly accessed?
Episodic memory
What is the term for the phenomenon where rereading text feels easier due to increased familiarity, rather than actual learning?
Illusions of Learning
Which hemisphere of the brain is language predominantly lateralized in most right-handed humans?
Left hemisphere
What type of memory involves knowledge of facts that cannot be traced to a specific event, but can be explicitly accessed?
Semantic memory
Test your knowledge on the key properties of language such as recursion, open-endedness, complexity, and displacement. Learn about the unique characteristics that set human language apart from animal communication systems.
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