2013年心理语言学试题.doc

Test Questions for Psycholinguistics (Fall, 2013) I. Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. If you come up with a “true” judgment, please write a clear “T” in the space marked by the corresponding question number on the answer sheet. Otherwise, write down an “F”. (15%) Psycholinguistics is said to be concerned with the use of language and speech as a window to the nature and structure of the human mind. (T) 2. The present goal of psycholinguistics is to discover the psychological processes that underpin the language use and development. (T) 3. A critical concern in psycholinguistics is with how the growing/developing child is cognitively conditioned in his or her language development. (T) 4. The “uphill” goal of psycholinguistics is to understand the universal intelligent being. (T) 5. The “downhill” goal of psycholinguistics is to understand social experience. (F, human experience) 6. The true understanding of our classics or a foreign language involves not only the knowledge about the referents of the words, but also a naturalization of the sense of the pragmatic strangeness. (T) 7. The listener and the speaker are roles in social communications. They are not functionally represented in our cognitive system. (F, not) 8. When we are interested in a topic, we know a lot about it and wish to know more (F, a lot(sth) 9. One of the essential differences between chimps and human beings in communication is that the former do not have a complex fabric of social relations. (T) 10. In terms of the cognitive function, the subject of a sentence is typically a coded search for some kind of existence or an agent in the world. (T) 11. Intuitive analysis and topic analysis are both essential in developing the psycholinguistic expertise. (T) 12. In our intuitive framework for language production, the “downstream dragon” (the functional string of semantic modules) and the “upstream dragon” (the functional string of linguistic/syntactic modules) are attra