Definitions
The subject performs the action on the object
Example: Ana made a sandwich
Active voice
Sentences with ____ take a longer processing time than ____ sentences
a) affirmatives; negatives
b) negatives; affirmatives
B) negatives; affirmatives
A Nested structure is a ____ ____ in which one phrase is connected with a didferent one
complex syntax
Negatives are
words to express rejection, such as no, not, against, etc.
____ can inflience how the grammar and sentence are interpreted by an individual
a) Context
b) Passive voice
a) Context
____ voice is easier to understand, according to a research conducted by Ferreira and her coauthors(2002)
Active voice
Lexical ambiguity is
When one word can have multiple meanings
Incremental interpretation can make nested structures harder to comprehend, because it doesn’t wait to hear the entire sentence.
a) false
b) true
B) true
“I like bats”, is an example of ____ ambiguity
Lexical
Syntatic Ambiguity is
An ambiguous sentence structure that can be interpreted inndifferent ways
The difficulty of a sentence increases if it contains:
a) negatives, complex syntax, ambiguity, and more.
b) phonemes, morpholoy, semantics, and more.
a) negatives, complex syntax, ambiguity, and more.
A research was conducted by ____ in 1995 that involved participants listeting to sentences containing syntatic ambiguities
Tanenhaus and colleagues
Incremental interpretation is when
Assumptions are made about the meaning of the sentence before we hear it coompletely
“I did not saw her duck”, can be an example of both:
a) affirmatives and syntatic ambiguity
b) negatives and lexical ambiguity
B) negatives and lexical ambiguity
A _____ reading task that‘s done in a comput and covers words in a sentence with dashes
Self-paced