In immigrant families, some young kids initially acquire the language of the adopted country through the very limited range of examples from their
... [Show More] parents' speech in that language. However, the limitation in the parents' speech in the new language does not prevent their kids from learning the language fully. This phenomenon would .
For adults, at the beginning stage of learning a second language, constructing sentences is a conscious effort and errors are often committed in the speech. This demonstrate that in these adults' second language speech process, which memory component is missing compared to first language speech?
It takes longer to categorize a dolphin as a mammal than to categorize a raccoon as a mammal because .
In many stroke patients, the ability to label everyday objects is impaired. This is considered aphasia.
An individual with a brain lesion in Broca's area is likely to .
Wernicke's area is critically involved in language comprehension. The primary input to this area is from .
Sometimes when we read a passage that is hard to understand, we notice ourselves moving our lips or even reading out loud as we read. This is consistent with the idea that .
During the first few years of living in the United States and speaking English every day, I sometimes found myself mistakenly produced an utterance in my native language (Mandarin) when I was in a rush to express a strong feeing. This is despite the fact that the whole conversational context was English and I knew exactly how to express the same feeling in English. The example demonstrates that .
For chess masters what is most likely the "basic" level when they perceive a chessboard that represents a stage of an ongoing game?
It is sometimes challenging for native Japanese speakers who encounter English as adults to differentiate the sounds represented by L and R in English because such a distinction does not exist in Japanese. This supports
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When my kids were very young, I started taking them to visit my parents in Taiwan. While there, they often pointed out colors and other features of things around them that I never noticed. This was because they were analyzing the new environment primarily from a perspective.
Which of the following would be consistent with linguistic relativism?
An exchange student who has an intermediate proficiency in English arrives at the ASU campus and finds that it is very difficulty to understand other students when they talk to him in daily encounters on
campus. However, he feel much more competent in understanding the teacher and fellow students in the classroom when the subject is something he is familiar with. This demonstrates the advantage of in the classroom setting.
Which of the following finding would argue against the innateness hypothesis of language?
In a neuroimaging study, subjects are presented with sentences on a computer screen and asked to make a decision on grammaticality of each sentence while their brains are being scanned by an MRI scanner. Which of the following region can be expected to be particularly active in this task?
Printed words are interpreted indirectly through converting the visual information into auditory input, which is associated with .
When we have an idea to express, there are many different ways to construct the sentences. This is most consistent with which concept?
For infants and very young children, what is the role of conceptual knowledge in the process of learning their native language?
Match the following terms to their respective conceptual levels in the same order:
After viewing the picture of a complex scene for 500 milliseconds, most people would describe the elements of the scene at the level of conceptual details. [Show Less]