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Question 101

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Lavonne was careful to avoid the use of dangling participles and run-on sentences in her essay because she did not want to lose points for faulty

A) semantics.
B) phonemes.
C) morphemes.
D) syntax.

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Question 102

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The women's basketball team at the University of Tennessee improved in free-throw shooting after practicing

A) productive language.
B) mental imagery.
C) telegraphic speech.
D) statistical learning.

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Question 103

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Children begin to demonstrate that they know how to put words in a sensible order during the ________ stage.

An algorithm is a

Convergent thinking is to academic aptitude as divergent thinking is to

Morphemes are

Many people overestimate how long they actually remain awake during restless nights because their moments of wakefulness are easier to recall than their moments of sleep.This best illustrates the impact of

In contrast to our explicit conscious reasoning,our seemingly effortless and automatic feelings or thoughts are called

Wernicke's area is typically located in the left ________ lobe.

Those who learn sign language as teens never become as fluent as children exposed to sign language from birth.This best illustrates the importance of ________ for mastering language.

The rock musician was hit with a rotten egg while performing his latest hit song.The fact that you can recognize two different meanings for the word "hit" in the preceding sentence demonstrates the importance of

Language refers to the

One group of Australian dolphins learned to use marine sponges as protective noseguards when probing the sea floor for fish.This best illustrates their capacity to

As he attempted to spell the word receive,Tim reminded himself "i before e except after c." Tim's self-reminder best illustrates the use of

Forest-dwelling chimpanzees use a light,flexible stick for fishing for termites.This illustrates their naturally developed use of

Four-month-old Piper makes a series of repetitive consonant-vowel sounds such as ba ba ba ba.This best illustrates

After identifying an ethnically blended face as Asian rather than as Caucasian,Belgian students recalled the face as more closely resembling their ________ of an Asian face.

Research suggests that humans can most easily master the grammar of a second language during

With which of the following statements will people typically agree most quickly?

Babies' first demonstration of productive language occurs