Week 1 Review Sheet

Answer the following questions in the space provided.

1. Distinguish between linguistics and psycholinguistics.

 

 

2. Define what a morpheme is and distinguish between a free morpheme and bound morpheme.

 

 

3. What are some methodologies we use to study psycholinguistics?

 

 

4. What does modularity of language refer to?

 

5. What proof do we have that phrase-structures appear to be psychological?

 

Answer the following multiple-choice questions.

1. Neurolinguistics is the study of:
(a) how we generate language
(b) how we acquire language
(c) how the brain relates to language
(d) how speech signals are interpreted by listeners

2. Which of the following are characteristics of language:
(a) intentionality
(b) productivity
(c) arbitrariness
(d) d, b and c
(e) a, b and d
(f) b, c and d
(g) all of the above

3. Semantics is to ______________ as morphology is to ___________________.
(a) The meaning of sentences and words … … … the use of different forms of the same word to convey different shades of meaning
(b) The use of different forms of the same word to convey different shades of meaning … … … the meaning of the sentences and words
(c) The grammatical arrangement of words within a sentence … … … the sounds in a language
(d) The sounds in a language … … … the grammatical arrangement of words within a sentence

Fill in the blanks.

1. Psycholinguistics is a ___________________ science, whereas linguistics is a __________________ science.

2. The study of phoneme ordering in a language is known as ___________________.

3. Prosody, stress pattern, timing and intonation differences are all part of the ___________________ information in a language.

4. One way to diagram the relationships between different constituents in a sentence is with _____________________________.

Decide whether the following statements are True/False.
In the case where you decide that the statement is false, then change the statement to make it correct.

1. Phonology refers to the sounds that are used in a given language, and how those sounds are used.

2. "They are eating apples". This sentence is not ambiguous.

3. Pragmatics entails the psychological rules involved in language use.

4. A Top-Down process is one in which the information at the higher levels does not influence processing at the lower levels.