Your fourth in-class quiz will be on Monday, November 19. The quiz will consist of several short-answer responses, of the sort that you are now familiar with. There will be no longer, essay-style response this time.
The quiz will cover the following topics, which we have encountered in class and in our readings:
Spoken Language Comprehension & Production:
- overview of the stages, general features of sentence comprehension
- lexical access and modularity vs. interactivity in sentence comprehension
- “garden path” sentences and strategies for incremental syntactic parsing (Late Closure, Minimal Attachment)
- “slips of the tongue” in sentence production
Language & the Brain:
- evidence that our language abilities (typically) reside in the left hemisphere
- characteristic features of different language aphasias: speech disturbances, affected region of brain, etc.
- Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area, and their possible functions
Note: Extra copies of all the class handouts can be found in the mailbox outside of my office door (621 Commonwealth Avenue, #110).