Exam #3 Review Game

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The process of “slicing” the stream of speech into successive syllables or words is called

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speech segmentation.

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The study of the sounds used in language is usually referred to as

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phonology.

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In ordinary speech production, the boundaries between syllables or between words are usually

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not marked, so they must be determined by the perceiver.

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You are flipping through channels on TV when you come upon a French-speaking station. You do not speak French, and you are amazed at how quickly it is spoken. Which factor is most relevant for explaining this reaction?

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You are not able to segment the speech sounds into phonemes, making it sound faster.

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“Coarticulation” refers to the fact that in producing speech

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phonemes overlap, both in their production and in their sound pattern.

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The term “categorical perception” refers to the fact that we are

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better at hearing the difference between sounds from different categories than we are at distinguishing sounds from the same category.

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In the word “cats” the “s” is

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a morpheme and a phoneme.

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Which of the following claims about phrase structure rules is FALSE?
- The rules govern the pattern of branching that is possible in a phrase structure tree.
- The rules determine whether the sentence is true or false.
- Word sequences that break the rules are likely to be judged as ungrammatical.
- The rules identify natural groupings of words within a sentence.

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The rules determine whether the sentence is true or false.

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Which of the following is NOT a principle that guides sentence parsing? Decisions about the parsing of individual words are not made until the entire sentence has been heard., In general, we assume that the sentences we hear will be in the active, not passive, voice., Parsing makes use of the small function words (e.g., “that” and “which”) to identify the sentence’s phrase structure., The semantics of the sentence are used as an aid in determining the source of the action and the recipient.

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Decisions about the parsing of individual words are not made until the entire sentence has been heard.

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Nonfluent aphasia, in which a patient has good language comprehension but disrupted speech production, is typically associated with damage to

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Broca’s area.