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This type of aphasia,due to damage in a specific area of the brain,is evident by a person's production of agrammatical speech (e.g. ,dingo … loving … ESP … daughter) .


A) anomic aphasia
B) Broca's aphasia
C) global aphasia
D) Wernicke's aphasia

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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Many adults have difficulty learning a new language.Which of the following is most likely the reason for this difficulty?


A) They are too old to learn new vocabulary.
B) They continue to primarily rely on their native language.
C) Syntax must be learned before adolescence.
D) The lexicon cannot integrate that amount of information.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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__________ refers to the study of how people use language,emphasizing the contexts in which language is used,as well as the nonverbal communication that augments verbal communication.


A) proxemics
B) dialectics
C) pragmatics
D) linguistics

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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__________ refer(s) to inadvertent errors in what is said,usually as a result of articulatory or semantic confusion of phonemes,morphemes,or even words.


A) Semantic confusion
B) Conversational errors
C) Similes
D) Slips of the tongue

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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Explain the importance of speech acts and the contribution they make to everyday conversations.What would happen if these were no longer part of our "language"?

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__________ refer to any of five basic categories of speech,analyzed in terms of the purposes accomplished by the given act.


A) Conversational categories
B) Conversational acts
C) Speech categories
D) Speech acts

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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Take a few slips of the tongue (or generate your own)and provided examples of how the errors occur at different levels of linguistic processing (i.e. ,acoustical level).What do slips of the tongue tell us about how we process linguistic information?

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Imagine a world in which men had women's conversational style and women had men's (remember Deborah Tannen's work).In what way would such a world differ from ours? Be sure to trace the differences between the worlds back to Tannen's gender conversational styles.

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Kutas and Hillyard used __________ to detect differences in processing of expected versus anomalous sentences.


A) fMRIs
B) ERPs
C) PET scans
D) CT scans

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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To express the phrase "people read," a well-known sociologist wrote instead,"The individual member of the social community often receives information via visual,symbolic channels." This long sentence illustrates a violation of the maxim of


A) quantity.
B) quality.
C) relation.
D) manner.

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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This type of aphasia is evident by a person's difficulty in retrieving words that correspond to specific objects.


A) anomic aphasia
B) Broca's aphasia
C) global aphasia
D) Wernicke's aphasia

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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The statement "Can you pass the salt?" is an example of a __________ speech act.


A) representative
B) directive
C) commissive
D) performative

E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

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When a person learns two different languages at the same time,this is called


A) additive bilingualism.
B) sequential bilingualism.
C) simultaneous bilingualism.
D) subtractive bilingualism.

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Although it is difficult to precisely map linguistic functions to specific hemispheres,in general it can be said that the left hemisphere


A) seems better at processing well-practiced routines.
B) seems better at dealing with novel stimuli.
C) seems to have little involvement in linguistic function.
D) seems to be entirely responsible for linguistic function.

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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Ann said "this court is now in session." This is an example of which type of speech act?


A) commissive
B) declaration
C) expressive
D) representative

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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According to Grice (1967) ,the maxim of __________ refers to the expectation that a person's contribution to a conversation avoid obscure expressions,vague utterances,and purposeful obfuscation of the point.


A) quantity
B) quality
C) relation
D) manner

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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The statement "Do you have the time?" is an example of a __________ speech act.


A) representative
B) directive
C) commissive
D) performative

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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In people suffering from autism,it is common for them to


A) repeat the same words over and over again.
B) speak fluently,but their speech does not make sense.
C) talk very little,but otherwise their speech is normal.
D) use empathetic language when speaking.

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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This general term indicates that there is an impairment in language functioning due to some damage to the brain (e.g. ,lesions) .


A) orthographic
B) linguistic relativity
C) subtractive bilingualism
D) aphasia

E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

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Identify the tenor and the vehicle from the following: Shakespeare in one of his plays wrote "all the world is a stage." The tenor is ___ and the vehicle is ___.


A) play;Shakespeare
B) Shakespeare;play
C) stage;world
D) world;stage

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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