Lexicon 2 Review Sheet

Answer the following questions in the space provided.

1. How was the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon proved to be a more phonologically based retrieval problem than meaning based retrieval problem? What does this tell us about retrieval of words in our mental lexicon?

2. Describe a confrontational naming task.

 

3. Define lexical ambiguity. How is phoneme monitoring used to examine the processing of ambiguous words?

 

4. Describe how context could possibly affect the activation of multiple word meanings for an ambiguous word making reference to bottom-up, top-down processing and cross-modal lexical decision tasks.

 

5. Define recoding and chunking. Thinking about recoding, how does the use of long term memory fascilitate a short term memory task?

 

6. Describe some of the limits to recalling things from working memory.

 

7. What is the difference between surface and deep structure?

 

8. Define parsing. Explain how parsing relates to modular and interactive models of processing.

 

9. What is the minimal attachment principle?

 

Answer the following multiple-choice questions.

1. Lemma is to the _______________ as lexeme is to the ___________________.
(a) Meaning … … …sound
(b) Sound …… … meaning
(c) Word … … … sentence
(d) Sentence … … … word

2. The two sentences The child threw the ball and The ball was thrown by the child
(a) have the same syntax
(b) have different surface structures
(c) have different deep structures
(d) have the same deep and surface structures

3. The technique of presenting just the beginnings of words and asking listeners to say what they think the word might be is called
(a) shadowing
(b) echoing
(c) gating
(d) a lexical decision task

4. People generally understand the grammatical rules of their native language, and yet most sentences they actually use in everyday speech are fragmentary and ungrammatical. This illustrates the difference between
(a) competence and production
(b) competence and performance
(c) comprehension and production
(d) conversation and discourse

5. The sentence Flying planes can be dangerous is confusing because it has
(a) more than one possible surface structure
(b) more than one possible complement
(c) more than one possible deep structure
(d) more than one possible clausal structure