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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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>True (A)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

Identify the speech error: She bounced and felled.

<p>Shift (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Fancy getting your model renosed?

<p>Exchange (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Substitution (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are used to identify phonemes of a language?

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

Identify the 2 stage process in lexicalisation (lexical retrieval)

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