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Psycholinguistics Questions Prepared By: Abu Bakr

This document contains questions from two lectures about psycholinguistics. The first lecture defines key terms like language, speech, thought and discusses whether language and thought are synonymous. It also addresses the creative nature of language through limited rules and elements. The second lecture discusses how language processing is mostly internal and subconscious, involving listening and speaking. It addresses how psycholinguistics studies hidden mental processes through analyzing observable behaviors like slips of the tongue. Slips of the tongue provide insights into how morphemes are planned and processed in the brain during speech.

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Psycholinguistics Questions Prepared By: Abu Bakr

This document contains questions from two lectures about psycholinguistics. The first lecture defines key terms like language, speech, thought and discusses whether language and thought are synonymous. It also addresses the creative nature of language through limited rules and elements. The second lecture discusses how language processing is mostly internal and subconscious, involving listening and speaking. It addresses how psycholinguistics studies hidden mental processes through analyzing observable behaviors like slips of the tongue. Slips of the tongue provide insights into how morphemes are planned and processed in the brain during speech.

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Psycholinguistics

Questions prepared by:


Abu Bakr
1st Lecture
1. The terms: language and speech are:
a. Synonymous to each other.
b. Replaceable by each other.
c. Defined by each other
d. All false
2. Speech, writing and signals are considered as:
a. Forms of language
b. Alternatives for language
c. Both
d. Neither
3. There are individuals (e.g. infants) who can think but
cannot produce language. This is a proof that:
a. Thought is synonymous to language.
b. Language is a part of thought.
c. Thought is not synonymous to language.
d. A and B
4. Are the terms language and communication synonymous?
a. Always
b. Never
c. Sometimes
d. All false
5. Language consists of the pair:
a. (Signal, reply)
b. (Signal, meaning)
c. (Meaning, reply)
d. (reply, response)
6. Limited number of phonemes, limited grammatical rules,
and limited vocabulary items will leads to unlimited
number of linguistics utterances. This proves that:
a. Language is limited.
b. Limitations are rare in languages.

c. There is a linguistic creativity.


d. A and B
7. People who teach language are interested in teaching a
standardized use of language, the form of a language that
is accepted in academic and business circles. This is an
example of:
a. Prescriptive grammar
b. Descriptive grammar
c. Both
d. Neither
8. It describes how a certain language is actually used by its
native speakers. This is the:
a. Prescriptive grammar
b. Descriptive grammar
c. Both
d. Neither
9. Me and Nasser went to Dammam. This is an example of:
a. Prescriptive grammar
b. Descriptive grammar
c. Both
d. Neither
10.
Linguistic competence is the linguistic knowledge
that provides a system for .sound and meaning (i.e.
the ability of linking words with their meanings).
a. Differentiating between
b. Pairing
c. Recognizing
d. All true
11.
Linguistic Performance is the use of such knowledge
(i.e. linguistic competence) in the processing of
sentences.
a. Actual
b. Virtual
c. Internal
d. external
12.
Error and mistake are:
a. The same

b. Not the same


c. Only found in natives language
d. All false
13.
..happens because of linguistic competence.
a. Error
b. Mistake
c. Both
d. Neither
14.
When a person has the linguistic competence but he
produces a wrong utterance, we call this:
a. Error
b. Mistake
c. Both
d. Neither
15.
Native speakers make:
a. Errors
b. Mistakes
c. Both
d. Neither

2nd lecture
1. An important fact is that Language processing
subconscious. Language processing consists of:
a. Listening
b. Speaking
c. Both
d. Neither

is

2. Another important fact is that, since language processing


is a mind-internal process, it is mostly..
a. Observable
b. Not physically observable
c. Wrong
d. Right
3. We cant see how the mind combines words to produce
sentences. To overcome the inability of observing hidden

linguistic processes, psycholinguistics guess the hidden


mental process by analyzing..
a. The observable behavior
b. The hidden behavior
c. Both
d. Neither
4. One way to study language processing is by studying
..
a. Slips of the tongue. (morphemes & the mind).
b. Vocabulary experiments (e.g. lexical decision, the priming
paradigm).
c. Both
d. Neither
5. Slips of the tongue involve exchanging morphemes
within
a. A word
b. A syllable
c. A sentence
d. All false
6. Which of the following is a slip in the tongue?
a. Sad ballad
b. Id forgot aboutten that
c. Easy enoughly
d. All true
7. Slips of the tongue are.
a. Just random useless mistakes
b. Tell us about how language is processed in the brain
c. Proofs that a language is difficult
d. All true
8. Slips of the tongue tell us that
a. We plan our speech before uttering it.
b. Morphemes function independently from words during
sentence planning.
c. Both
d. Neither
9. Inside your brain, morphemes are recognized asentity.

a.
b.
c.
d.

Different
Similar
Multi
All false

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