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According to Givon’s distinction, what characterizes the pragmatic mode of production?
According to Givon’s distinction, what characterizes the pragmatic mode of production?
- Simple sentence structures and heavy use of grammatical rules
- Loose coordination of clauses and little use of grammatical morphology (correct)
- Tight coordination of clauses and heavy use of grammatical morphology
- Complex sentence structures and minimal use of grammatical rules
According to Robinson, what type of task demands elicit the syntactic mode of production?
According to Robinson, what type of task demands elicit the syntactic mode of production?
- Interactive task demands
- Simple task demands
- Conceptual task demands
- Complex task demands (correct)
According to Givon, how are more complex mentally-represented events coded?
According to Givon, how are more complex mentally-represented events coded?
- By more complex linguistic/syntactic structures (correct)
- By semantic structures
- By less complex linguistic/syntactic structures
- By phonological structures
What did Robinson propose to guide research into the claims about task demands?
What did Robinson propose to guide research into the claims about task demands?
What does the Triadic Componential Framework (TCF) distinguish in terms of task demands?
What does the Triadic Componential Framework (TCF) distinguish in terms of task demands?