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Cognitive Final Exam – Inquizitive Questions and Answers 100% Solved Statements that are true about influences on parsing - People usually seek the simplest phrase structures Background knowledge guides how people parse sentences Function words signal syntactic roles in sentences The capaci...

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Cognitive Final Exam – Inquizitive

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Statements that are true about influences on parsing - ✔✔People usually

seek the simplest phrase structures



Background knowledge guides how people parse sentences



Function words signal syntactic roles in sentences

The capacity to create an endless series of new combinations from a small

set of fundamental units in a language is referred to as _____________. -

✔✔Generatively (New words that arise within a language (selfie,

mansplain) are possible because of the generatively of language

Select the sentences that violate English syntax. - ✔✔He placed on the

counter. (A verb like placed requires an object in English)

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He slept the apple on the counter. (A verb like slept does not take an object

in English) --

The syntax of a language is the set of rules that govern the sentences and

combinations of words in the formation of phrases and sentences.

Sentences - ✔✔Coherent sequences of words that express an intended

meaning

Phonemes - ✔✔Smallest units of sound that distinguish words in a

language

Morphemes - ✔✔Smallest language units that carry meaning

Molly (an English speaker) and Aiko (a Japanese speaker) are setting up

Molly's house for a birthday party. Their friend Brent walks in with balloons.

When he sets them down, a couple of them hit against the nearby ceiling

fan and pop.



How are Molly and Aiko each likely to describe this balloon-popping event?

Who is most likely to remember that Brent was involved? - ✔✔Molly - Most

likely to remember that Brent was involved (Japanese speakers are less

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likely than English speakers to remember the person who triggered the

accident)

Brent popped the balloons! (English speakers tend to use active-voice

sentences that name the agent of the action (accidental or not).



Aiko - The balloons popped! (When describing an accident, Japanese

speakers tend not to name the agent of the action)



The language you hear often guides what you pay attention to, and what

you pay attention to shapes your thinking

______ refers to the pattern of pauses and pitch changes that characterize

speech production - ✔✔Prosody (Prosody can be used to emphasize

elements of a spoken sentence, to highlight the sentence's intended

structure, and to signal the difference between a question and assertion)

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."—Noam Chomsky



What does this quote by Noam Chomsky tell us about the rules of syntax in

language? - ✔✔Syntax is not sufficient to convey semantics (Although this

sentence follows the rules of English syntax, it is meaningless)

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You're speaking with Kwame, an international student who is visiting the

United States for the year. What do you probably need to change about

your speech to make communication easier? - ✔✔Syntax

Vocabulary

Prosody

Language training is more successful with animals that are very similar to

humans genetically. - ✔✔True

Animal language is not naturally occurring, but it can be taught - ✔✔False

Some animal species have sophisticated language systems - ✔✔False

Some animal species have sophisticated communication systems -

✔✔True

People parse sentences _____ they hear the sentence being spoken -

✔✔While

Which of these conversations depends on having established common

ground to fill in gaps in the dialogue? - ✔✔Tammy: "I'm leaving you"

Eric: "Who is he?"

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