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WorksheetsSentence Processing
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a voltage peak in an EEG caused by semantic anomalies?
a)
N400
b)
P600
c)
P400
d)
N800
2.
What is electrical activity in the brain that is the direct result of a specific event?
a)
Event-Related Potential
b)
Electroencephalography
c)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
d)
Positron Emission Tomography
3.
What is it called in sentence processing when we construct the most common types of structures first?
a)
Minimal Attachment
b)
Late Closure
c)
Garden Path Model
d)
Structural Ambiguity
4.
English speakers expect this word order because it is the most common:
a)
SVO
b)
VSO
c)
OSV
d)
SOV
5.
What is a voltage peak in an EEG caused by syntactic anomalies?
a)
P600
b)
N400
c)
P800
d)
N600
6.
Psycholinguists can test how toddlers parse sentences in these kinds of experiments:
a)
Eye-Tracking Experiments
b)
fMRI Experiments
c)
Lexical Decision Tasks
d)
Word Association Experiments
7.
What is it called when a sentence/phrase has at least 2 possible syntactic structures?
a)
Global Ambiguity
b)
Garden Path
c)
Temporary Ambiguity
d)
Crash Blossom
8.
These two things help disambiguate ambiguous sentences at the phonological level.
a)
Prosodic breaks and intonation
b)
Intonation and palatalization
c)
Intonation and affixation
d)
Prosodic breaks and nasalization
9.
What is it called when one string of words can have multiple syntactic representations?
a)
Structural Ambiguity
b)
Lexical Ambiguity
c)
Phonological Ambiguity
d)
Morphological Ambiguity
10.
Which of the following IS NOT a kind of Temporary Ambiguity?
a)
sentences with 2 possible tree structures
b)
Attributive Nouns like "grape juice"
c)
Garden Path sentences
d)
Crash Blossoms
11.
Which of these is a way to measure brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow?
a)
fMRI
b)
EEG
c)
MRI
d)
PET
12.
What are Garden Path Headlines called?
a)
Crash Blossoms
b)
Global Ambiguities
c)
Temporary Ambiguities
d)
Mondegreens
13.
A sentence which misleads the mental parser by inducing a structural interpretation which turns out to be incorrect is called a:
a)
Garden Path Sentence
b)
Globally Ambiguous Sentence
c)
Temporarily Ambiguous Sentence
d)
Crash Blossom
14.
Toddlers have trouble understanding sentences like "He bought a dog toy." because of this:
a)
Temporary Ambiguity
b)
Global Ambiguity
c)
Garden Path Phrases
d)
Crash Blossoms
15.
The process of analyzing a string of words into a sentence structure is called:
a)
Parsing
b)
Disambiguating
c)
Ambiguating
d)
Inflecting
16.
What method did neurolinguists at Berkeley use to develop a "lexical map of the brain"?
a)
fMRI
b)
EEG
c)
PET
d)
MRI
17.
What is it called in sentence processing when we attach new phrases to the most recently built structure?
a)
Late Closure
b)
Minimal Attachment
c)
Garden Path Model
d)
Structural Ambiguity
18.
Which of the following DO NOT elicit P600 responses?
a)
derivational errors
b)
inflectional errors
c)
Garden Path sentences
d)
complicated sentences
19.
A structural ambiguity that gets resolved at some point due to the reparsing of the words is called a:
a)
Temporary Ambiguity
b)
Global Ambiguity
c)
Event-Related Potential
d)
Minimal Attachment
20.
Which of these is a way to measure electrical activity in the brain?
a)
EEG
b)
fMRI
c)
MRI
d)
PET
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