Language And Thought

A. In the sentence ‘Harry drove to London there may be a default representation of the fact that a car was used. subsequent mention of a car should not be a problem because its default is already in the representation resulting from the sentence and Sanford failed to show this
B. Sanford are Garrod argued that we automatically relate what is being said to background knowledge is organized in long-term memory about specific situations
C. In Garnham’s experiment cooked was a better retrieval cue for the sentence ‘Mary cooked the chips than was fried because ‘cooked’ actually appears in the sentence
D. Scenarios result from next comprehension; they do not help comprehension take place

A. Dyslexia
B. Aphasia
C. Dysphasia
D. Lexphasia

A. The finding of Gibbs show that the applicability of the standard comprehension model is widespread
B. Comprehending sentences in stories is the same as comprehending actual interactions in dialogue
C. Work on indirect speech-act comprehension reinforces the view that literal interpretation is always necessary
D. Similar findings have been obtained for metaphor comprehension as have been obtained with speech-act comprehension

A. Participants were presented with spoken passage like these; (a) Mary needed to buy some presents, so she went to the bank;(b) Mary found the river cold ,so she swam to the bank
B. immediately after the presentation of the ambiguous word, Swinney presented a single letter string on a screen participants had to decide whether the letter string was a world or not(a lexical decision)
C. When the string was a word, it could either be related to the intended sense of the ambiguous word(e.g) money’) related to the other sense (e.g mud), or unrelated to other
D. It turned out that there was differential advantage (priming) for different sense of the word when there was a delay before the second stimulus depending on the meaning so context appeared to affect initial sense selection

A. The modular view of word-sense retrieval is that word meanings are stored in a way that is not context sensitive
B. When we encounter a string of letters that represents a word, we automatically look up and retrieve the meaning
C. If a string represents more than one word, than only one meaning is immediately retrieved if the context indicates which one
D. the modular view o0f word-meaning extraction is attractive because it keeps the mechanisms of looking up word-meaning separate from context

A. There is one principle class of phenomena that requires more than literal meaning
B. In understanding metaphor the processor first has to parse sentences than has to determine their significance too
C. The meaning of “Could you close the door?” can be established on the basis of semantics alone
D. Both a & b

A. 1 & 2
B. 1 & 3
C. 2 & 4
D. 3 & 4

A. Context
B. Semantics
C. Pragmatics
D. Discourse

A. Syntax
B. Pragmatics
C. Mnemonics
D. Semantics

A. The psychology of language is concerned with the organization and processing of written language only
B. Language lies at the interface of pure psychology, linguistics and mathematics
C. Language is a simple process with very few mysteries
D. None of the above