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Which design feature from Hockett (1960) has the advantage that it frees up much of the body to do other things at the same time?

  • discreteness
  • vocal - auditory channel (correct)
  • displacement
  • specialisation

    • Which inference is involved in the minimalist approach?

  • Based on quick and available information (correct)
  • Based on long and non available information
  • inference for global coherence (connections between sentences that are far apart)
  • Those that cause less priming

    • What results occurred from Spinney1979?

  • Opposite words to the word in the sentence lead to faster responses.
  • Similar words to the word in the sentence lead to slower responses.
  • Similar words to the word in the sentence lead to faster responses. (correct)
  • No relation between type of word and the word in the sentence.

    • Which of the 4 factors is NOT a part of the human language

    <p>Vocal exercise</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Linguistic relativity in gender is evidence for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which 2 factors does the Sapir - Whorf hypothesis state that is involved in our language?

    <p>Strong language determinism &amp; weak linguistic relativism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which one of these principles does Frazier (1987) effect parsing?

    <p>Late closure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Identify the speech error: She bounced and felled.

    <p>Shift</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Fancy getting your model renosed?

    <p>Exchange</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Diana just started the book, she gave it a 5 star.

    <p>Substitution</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are used to identify phonemes of a language?

    <p>Minimal pairs (sip &amp; zip)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Identify the 2 stage process in lexicalisation (lexical retrieval)

    <p>Meaning (lemme) then form</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In Patricia Kuhl's experiment why couldn't the Japanese children no longer distinguish between R&L.

    <p>During the critical period the babies focus on the statistic of their own language so Japanese learnt sounds that crossed over R&amp;L.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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