Language Processing

Question 1

discourse analysis

Answer 1

how readers process extended passages of written text

Question 2

garden path sentence

Answer 2

one that causes readers to process it again due to confusing structure

Question 3

minimal attachment strategy

Answer 3

assigns to a sentence the simplest structure permitted by the grammar

Question 4

late closure strategy

Answer 4

attaches an incoming phrase to the clause currently being processed

Question 5

parallel function strategy

Answer 5

assumes a pronoun in a particular syntactic position refers back to an antecedent in the same syntactic position

Question 6

understanding negatives

Answer 6

negatives (whether explicit or inherent) take longer to process than positives

Question 7

nonreversible passive

Answer 7

the agent and patient cannot logically be reversed

Question 8

script

Answer 8

prototypical sequence of events in a familiar situation

Question 9

cohesion strategies

Answer 9

reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctions, lexical cohesion, collocation

Question 10

reference

Answer 10

the use of pronouns

Question 11

substitution

Answer 11

substitution of pro-forms such as “one” and “ones”

Question 12

ellipsis

Answer 12

substitution by zero

Question 13

lexical cohesion

Answer 13

repetition, synonyms, superordinate, collocation

Question 14

collocation

Answer 14

use of lexical items that regularly appear in the same context

Question 15

thematic role

Answer 15

relation of a noun phrase to the action described by a verb
agent, patient, beneficiary

Question 16

agent

Answer 16

doer of the action

Question 17

patient

Answer 17

entity affected by the action

Question 18

beneficiary

Answer 18

entity for whose benefit the action occurs

Question 19

given-new contract

Answer 19

passages are easier to comprehend and remember if new information follows given information

Question 20

linear progression

Answer 20

an AB:BC arrangement of given and new information

Question 21

hierarchal progression

Answer 21

an AB:AC arrangement of given and new information