心理语言学试题.docx

1、心理语言学试题Test Questions for Psycholinguistics (Fall, 2013)I. Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. If you come up with a “true” judgment, please write a clear “T” in the space marked by the corresponding question number on the answer sheet. Otherwise, write down an “F”. (15%

2、)1. Psycholinguistics is said to be concerned with the use of language and speech as a window to the nature and structure of the human mind. (T)2. The present goal of psycholinguistics is to discover the psychological processes that underpin the language use and development. (T)3. A critical concern

3、 in psycholinguistics is with how the growing/developing child is cognitively conditioned in his or her language development. (T)4. The “uphill” goal of psycholinguistics is to understand the universal intelligent being. (T)5. The “downhill” goal of psycholinguistics is to understand social experien

4、ce. (F, human experience)6. The true understanding of our classics or a foreign language involves not only the knowledge about the referents of the words, but also a naturalization of the sense of the pragmatic strangeness. (T)7. The listener and the speaker are roles in social communications. They

5、are not functionally represented in our cognitive system. (F, not)8. When we are interested in a topic, we know a lot about it and wish to know more (F, a lotsth)9. One of the essential differences between chimps and human beings in communication is that the former do not have a complex fabric of so

6、cial relations. (T) 10. In terms of the cognitive function, the subject of a sentence is typically a coded search for some kind of existence or an agent in the world. (T)11. Intuitive analysis and topic analysis are both essential in developing the psycholinguistic expertise. (T) 12. In our intuitiv

7、e framework for language production, the “downstream dragon” (the functional string of semantic modules) and the “upstream dragon” (the functional string of linguistic/syntactic modules) are attracted around the “ball” of the communicative intention in their functional uses of various cognitive reso

8、urces (F, the communicative intentionthe pre-verbal message).13. In the psychology of language, a cognitive factor is a lower-level cognitive function that emerges as a condition that turns a feature/some features of linguistic performance on or off. (T) 14. In the present state of knowledge, psycho

9、linguistic theories should be learned and memorized rather than institutionalized. (F)15. For field workers in psycholinguistics, the objects of study distribute along the interactive domains rather than the autonomous domains. (T)16. Developmental psycholinguistics examines how speech emerges over

10、time and how children go about constructing the complex structures of their mother tongue.(T)17. Innatism holds that language acquisition does not depend totally on the influence of the environment. (T)18. Interactionism recognizes the child-environment interaction as important in accounting for the

11、 development of language. (T)19. Early psycholinguists were closely concerned with how autonomous or modularized language is. (T)20. Cognitive-functionally speaking, both language acquisition and use plausibly involve a grammar that is born in us. (F)21. A plausible theory enables us to talk about l

12、anguage more easily, more intuitively and more truthfully. (T) 22. According to behaviorism, frequency plays a fundamental role in the patterns of human behavior. (T)23. Intuitively, the exceptional precocity of talented writers and speakers has provided excellent examples for us to draw psycholingu

13、istic conclusions. (F)24. The data used for modeling the psychology of language include latency data, speech errors and true or false judgments. (F)25. The rejection of a past theory means that it is no longer of any use in our understanding of human language. (F)26. A piece of linguistic evidence e

14、ither supports a theory or enables us to “see” more about the language reality. (T)27. Any recorded episode of childrens language is useful data in the study of psycholinguistics. (F)28. Researchers depend on experience to find more about language. (F)29. The psycholinguistic methodology in general

15、is typified by “introspection”. (F)30. “The child is the father of man” is the pertinent when we talk about the natural intelligence underlying language development and use. (T)II. In the following, you are required to choose from among the optional answers the one that best completes the psycholing

16、uistic statement and, then, fill its marking letter on the corresponding answer sheet. (60%)31. There are two general trends in scientific thinking:_A. Autonomy and interactionismB. Modulairy and constructionismC. Innatism and interactionismD. Subjectivity and objectivity32. Which of the following s

17、tatements about the brain function for language is presently more plausible?A. The brain determines language.B. The brain sub-serves linguistic interactions with our environment.C. The brain is hard-wired for language.D. The brain is an innate organ for language. 33. Which of following is a correct

18、annotation for the ?-marked area in the brain?A. the Brocas area.B. the Wernikes area.C. the arcuate faciculus.D. the angular gyrus.34. Which of the following annotation is presently more appropriate for the question mark “?” in the following picture?A. “seeing”(看)B. “reading”（阅读）C. “visual input”（视

19、觉输入）D. “visual pathway”（视觉通道）35. Difficulty in speech production may be caused by _A. damage to the Brocas area.B. damage to the Wernikes area.C. damage to the arcuate faciculus.D. damage to the angular gyrus.36. Inability to repeat what is heard may be caused by _A. damage to the Brocas area.B. dam

20、age to the Wernikes areaC. damage to the arcuate fasciculus.D. damage to the angular gyrus.37. Difficulty in language comprehension may be caused by _A. damage to the Brocas area.B. damage to the Wernikes areaC. damage to the arcuate fasciculus.D. damage to the angular gyrus.38. Which order does lan

21、guage follow in its development?A. crying- babbling-cooing- one-word utterances-two-word utterances- questions - negatives - rare or complex constructions - mature speechB. crying-cooing-babbling-one-word utterances-two-word utterances- questions - negatives - rare or complex constructions - mature

22、speechC. crying-cooing- one-word utterances-babbling- two-word utterances- questions - negatives - rare or complex constructions - mature speechD. crying-cooing-babbling-one-word utterances-two-word utterances - negatives - questions - rare or complex constructions - mature speech39. Which order the

23、re may be for the acquisition of the following wordsA. big smalltall - short, long shorthigh lowthick thinwide - narrowdeep shallowB. high lowthick thin big smalltall - short, long shortwide - narrowdeep shallowC. big smallhigh lowthick thinwide - narrowdeep shallowtall - short, long shortD. deep sh

24、allowbig smalltall - short, long shorthigh lowthick thinwide - narrow40. Which order does the acquisition of the negative form may follow?a. I no want milk/I dont want milk No singing song I dont want some paper.b. I dont want some paper No singing song I no want milk/I dont want milk.c. No singing

25、song I no want milk/I dont want milk I dont want some paper.d. I no want milk/I dont want milk I dont want some paper No singing song.41. Crying is initially _, because there is a direct link between the physical sound and its communicative intent. A. iconic; B. echoic; C. symbolic; D. holophrastic4

26、2. _ refers to the natural tendency of 6-month-old children to burst out in strings of consonant-vowel syllable clusters. A. Crying; B. Cooing; C. Babbling; D. gesturing43. One-year-olds produce the so-called egocentric speech because _A. they talk about things around them as if they were the center

27、s of their families.B. they are in a transitional state of awareness of the world as if they were the center of all. C. they are occupied or possessed by their own ego or concerns.D. they are highly prejudiced. 44. Now we know that the over-regulated words such as goed and breaked are pieces of evid

28、ence for _. A. creative language use; B. the application of empirical language rules; C. linguistic imitations; D. childish use of language45. Stephen Pinkers conceptualization of language instinct is a strong defendence of the view that _ A. language is acquired in a universal pattern. B. language

29、is individually acquired. C. language is acquired through childrens interaction with their environment. D. language is conditioned by outside stimulus.46. Most psycholinguists believe that the “foreign accents” of bilingual children at the age of 12 might suggest that there is a critical period that

30、 _ determine first language learning. A. biologically; B. cognitively; C. innately; D. socioculturally47. According to Scovel, children display an inborn sensitivity to the _ of the language they are acquiring, as in the case of “up” in the following example. Child: Bens picking up. Hes hicking up.

31、Adult: What? Child: Hes got the hiccups. A. syntactic structures; B. the word meaning;C. the thematic roles; D. the syntactic function of the word48. Chomsky proposed an innate LAD that allows children to constantly form and revise hypotheses on the basis of _. A. output; B. native accent; C. innate knowledge; D. input49 Early words are characterized by all the following except_ A. phonetic easiness to pronounce B. morphological iconicity C. semantic abstractness D. situational function50. Which of the following descriptions is not an appr