PBSI 346 Midterm Review

PBSI 436 Midterm Review

What to Expect

• Exam on Tuesday, February 27th

• Full-sheet scantron, bring a pencil

• Multiple choice & true/false

• In person in usual classroom

• You may bring one printer sized piece of paper with notes (double sided)

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What are Charles Hockett's Design Characteristics of Human Language?

Multiple Choice

________ is a speech impediment in which one can understand language perfectly and can produce fluent but meaningless speech

• Wernicke's aphasia
• Stuttering
• Dyslexia
• Broca's aphasia

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Who are some prominent figures in psycholinguistics?

Fill in the Blanks

describes the study of language at the sound level

Multiple Choice

The smallest meaningful speech sound in a language

• syllable

• phoneme

• morpheme

• allophone

Multiple Select

Which of the following are classified as segmental information of speech sounds? (select multiple)

• syllable

• prosodic information

• phoneme

• sub phonemic features

Multiple Choice

Sounds produced by obstructing the air flow of any part of the vocal tract

• phones

• fricatives

• vowels

• consonants

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What are some possible places of articulation for consonants?

Stops – block and release air stream [p], [t], [k]
Nasals – let air through nasal cavity [m],[ng]
Fricatives:- force air through narrow passage in vocal tract [f], [th], [s]
Affricates: [c], [j]
Laterals: let air flow around tongue [l], [r]
Semivowels: no air flow obstruction [w], [y]
Trills: e.g. Spanish [r]

Manner of articulation

bilabial: b,p,m,w
labiodental: f,v
dental: thin, then
alveolar: tack, dig, s, z, n, l
palatal: fish, azure, church, judge, r, y
velar: g, k, sing
glottal: uh-oh

Places of articulation

Consonants

Multiple Choice

Restrictions on what sound can follow another sound in a given language

• Syntactic constraints

• Phonotactic constraints

• Morphology
• Phonology

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a lexical category?

• Adverb

• Syllable

• Morpheme

• Prefix

Multiple Select

Which of the following is a type of affix? (select all that apply)

• infixes

• interfixes
• outfixes
• circumfixes

Fill in the Blanks

A

is the smallest meaningful lexical or grammatical element in a word.

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What are some examples of homographs?

Multiple Choice

The study of language through the lens of meaning

• syntax
• semantics
• pragmatics
• phonetics

Multiple Choice

Which word is marked?

• red

• burgundy

Multiple Choice

A set of grammar rules governed by normal usage

• prescriptive grammar
• informative grammar
• restrictive grammar
• descriptive grammar

Multiple Choice

Making reference to something that occurs later in the discourse

• prophoric reference

• anaphoric reference

• substitution

• cataphoric reference

Multiple Choice

Exact wording of a spoken language is known as

• propositional representation

• surface representation

• situational model representation

• verbose representation

Poll

How do you feel about the exam?

• Great!

• It'll be alright

• I definitely need to study

• I can come back...